Your Guide to Healthy Eating and Specialty Diets

Ditch the fads and get the details behind your specialty diet, plus healthy eating guides for every lifestyle.

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6 Food Combinations That’ll Boost Your Gut Health
Cooking Light - Jamie Vespa, MS, RD
Combine prebiotics with probiotics in recipes to form a dynamic duo that boosts your good gut bacteria. Prebiotics and probiotics are key players in …
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Paleo Diet 101
Cooking Light - Carolyn Williams, Ph.D., RD
Fans of the Paleo diet swear by its focus on eating like our ancestors did prior to the agricultural revolution. This plan focuses on food such as …
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Nutrition
20 Foods That Sound Healthy (but Aren’t)
Cooking Light - Carolyn Williams, PhD, RD
Salad, bran muffins, fat-free foods―they're good for you, right? Not always. Our nutrition experts reveal surprisingly unhealthy foods, plus …
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15 Ways to Use Ground Flaxseed
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Add an omega-3 boost to a variety of dishes with this surprisingly versatile ingredient. Store-bought, pre-ground flaxseed works as a thickener, …
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Paleo Dinners: 26 Easy Recipes for Weeknights
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The paleo diet, also known as the caveman diet, is one based off ancient eating practices. The diet avoids foods that our early, early ancestors …
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The Gluten-Free Guide to Whole Grains
Cooking Light - Ann Taylor Pittman
If you are gluten sensitive, you can still get your daily whole-grain fix. Use this gluten-free grains guide to help you make delicious selections …
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Tired of Water? 5 Healthy Alternatives That Won’t Break Your Diet
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You know you need to stay hydrated, and that water is the optimal calorie-free choice. But there may be times when you need a break from plain H2O. …
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Gluten-Free Cakes
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Baking moist, rich cakes without gluten has never been easier—or tastier. Our collection of light, fluffy cakes and cupcakes will impress the whole …
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Dairy-Free Holiday Recipes
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Find decadent recipes fit for the holidays without any lactose or dairy. From sides to dessert, check out our dairy-free recipes to make a complete …
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Gluten-Free Flour, Grains, and Starches
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These products offer some alternatives to gluten-containing ingredients and flours that are helpful to have on hand when baking gluten-free. We're …
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All the Vegan Recipes You’ll Ever Need
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Following a vegan diet doesn't have to be boring. These healthy and satisfying recipes, ranging from dinner-worthy entrées to mouth-watering treats, …
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This Type of Non-Dairy Milk Is the Healthiest, Study Says
Cooking Light - Amanda MacMillan
It has the most protein. That almond milk latte may be delicious, but a study just published in the Journal of Food Science and Technology suggests …
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We Tried 19 Vegan Cheeses—Here Are the Ones Worth Buying
Cooking Light - Hayley Sugg
We found some pretty tasty products and lived to tell the tale. Vegan cheese has a reputation for being notoriously bad. In the earlier days of the …
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5 Mistakes Every Newbie Vegetarian Makes
Cooking Light - Hayley Sugg
Don't let your journey into vegetarianism get derailed with these simple beginner mistakes. There has never been an easier time to go vegetarian. …
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Which is Healthier: A Vegetarian or Mediterranean Diet?
Cooking Light - Jamie Ducharme
Here's how they compare for heart health. The Mediterranean diet is consistently heralded as one of the most healthful eating styles. It’s heavy on …
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6 Things I've Learned After Being Vegan for a Decade
Cooking Light - Hayley Sugg
And no, I've never been protein deficient. The acceptance and options for vegans have changed drastically over the past decade. We've moved on from …
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Why Vegan Doesn't Always Mean Healthy
Cooking Light - Hayley Sugg
This increasingly common label can get you into some nutritional trouble. The vegan lifestyle is on the rise. It's hard to visit a grocery store …
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This Trick Makes Vegan Scrambled Eggs Actually Taste Like Eggs
Cooking Light - Rebecca Firkser
Aquafabalous. Vegan scrambled eggs sound like an oxymoron, but if you’ve been out to brunch in the past few years, you’ve certainly noticed an option …
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10 Surprising Foods Vegetarians and Vegans Can't Eat
Cooking Light - Hayley Sugg
While it's much easier (AKA mainstream) these days to be vegetarian or vegan, there are still a few foods that aren't suitable for these diets that …
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Diabetic Recipes - Cooking Light
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Take charge of the battle against diabetes with the help of the experts at Cooking Light magazine, including these recipes, study reports, videos and …
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The 2 Diets You Should Try in 2018, According to Experts
Cooking Light - Jaime Milan
Did your diet make the cut? Each year, over 45 million Americans go on a diet with hopes of achieving a healthier lifestyle. The U.S. News & World …
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What Is the Pegan Diet?
Cooking Light - Carolyn Williams, PhD, RD
Our nutritionist weighs in on the latest trendy diet plan. First introduced by Dr. Mark Hyman in 2015, the Pegan Diet is a new approach to eating that …
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22 Heart Healthy Foods to Fuel Your Cardiac Diet
Cooking Light - Elena Donovan Mauer
A “cardiac diet”—a.k.a. a heart healthy diet—coupled with regular exercise, can help boost your heart health for years to come. “Cardiac diet” is an …
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Kate Middleton’s Diet Is Actually Kind of Surprising
Cooking Light - Zee Krstic
The royal's go-to diet is one of our nutritionist's top diets of 2018. When you think of eating as a British royal, you might imagine dinner at …
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My Weight Is Not My Worth
Cooking Light - Kimberly Holland
In second grade, my class sold enough wrapping paper and trinkets to win a pool party at our local rec center. The evening after that announcement, I …
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On the Path to Diet Success: Planning to Fail
Cooking Light - Kimberly Holland
Every day I plan to fail at my diet. Crazy, right? It sounds contrary to anything you'd want for your own weight-loss goals, but hear me out …
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Why success in dieting causes me to fail
Cooking Light - Erin Clinton
I think one of the reasons I am the queen of yo-yo dieting is because I cut myself too much slack. I go strong for a few weeks, my clothes are …
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How To Not Let a Diet Ruin a Vacation
Cooking Light - Katie Anderson
Welcome Katie Anderson, guest blogger who is reporting on her Cooking Light Diet journey. Follow more from Katie on her blog, …
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How Your Diet Can Sabotage Your Exercise
Cooking Light - Scott Mowbray
It's easy to overestimate the power of exercise to help weight loss, especially if you increase your fitness regime at the same time you embark on a …