There’s a moment — often quiet, sometimes frustrating — when you realize your body doesn’t respond the way it used to. You eat the same meals, move the same way,…
Is Sugar the World’s Most Popular Drug?
It’s in your morning cereal, your afternoon coffee, your favorite sauces, your granola bar, your weekend treats, and sometimes even your salad dressing. It sweetens childhoods, comforts breakups, celebrates birthdays,…
Keeping Your Spirits Up When You’re Obese
Some days are heavier than others — and not just physically. When you are obese, the weight you carry isn’t always yours alone. It can be the weight of passing…
Cooking for One: Stretching the Budget Without Losing the Joy
There’s something oddly quiet about cooking for one. No plates to set for someone else. No “how was your day?” drifting over a shared table. Just you, your ingredients, and…
Recipe: La Scala Chopped Salad
This now-iconic salad is said to have been created after hungry Hollywood stars asked the chef at La Scala in Beverly Hills for something easier to eat. At the time,…
How Much Should I Really Be Drinking?
We’ve all heard the rule: eight glasses a day. It echoes through health blogs and workplace wellness posters like gospel. You imagine a tidy row of sparkling cups lined up…
Why We Should Stop Listening to the Naysayers
The world, they say, is falling apart. Just turn on the news, scroll through a comment section, or sit next to that one person who always starts a conversation with,…
The Cult of Compulsory Happiness
There’s a smile that doesn’t reach the eyes. You’ve probably worn it. You’ve probably seen it. The kind that says “I’m fine!” when your chest is heavy or your mind…
Recipe: Cucumber, Watermelon and Chili Salad
A very simple summer salad with an added punch. Ingredients Half a watermelon, peeled and sliced 2 cucumbers, cut on the bias Juice of 1 lime, plus lime chunks to…
How Obesity Is Seen Across the World
In the West, we tend to talk about obesity in medical terms — as a public health crisis, a personal challenge, or a problem to solve. We measure it in…
How Obesity Shapes Public Health
We talk about it in headlines, in hospitals, in hushed conversations between friends. Obesity — a word that carries weight far beyond the body. It’s complex, it’s personal, and it’s…
Everyday Situations That Can Cause Anxiety for Obese People
These moments may seem small to others, but for someone living in a larger body, they can accumulate — creating a chronic undercurrent of stress, self-consciousness, and anxiety. Recognizing them…
Recipe: Peri-Peri Chicken
Here’s a bold, flavorful recipe for Peri-Peri Chicken, inspired by Portuguese-African flavors — spicy, smoky, tangy, and absolutely irresistible. Serves: 4 | Prep Time: 20 min (+ marinating time) |…
Sleeping in a Recliner
If sleeping in your recliner is part of your nightly routine due to surgery, chronic pain, breathing issues, reflux, or even just preference — there’s an art to doing it…
20 Ailments Commonly Associated with Obesity
Obesity isn’t just about weight — it’s a complex health condition that can affect nearly every system in the body. While no two people experience it the same way, carrying…
Recipe: Broccoli With Chili, Garlic and Parmesan
Ingredients 3 garlic cloves ½ to 1 red chili 1 1/2 lbs broccoli 3 tbsp olive oil 2 oz Parmesan Method Peel and finely slice the garlic. Halve the chili,…
The Quiet Art of Cooking for Yourself
There’s something quietly defiant about cooking for one. Not microwaving. Not grazing. Not nibbling over the sink or eating out of a takeout container with the TV on in the…
Eating Light Without Going Broke
There’s a myth floating around that eating healthy means spending half your paycheck on kale, goji berries, and powdered something-or-other from a sleek white pouch. But here’s the truth: some…
Early Supper, Lighter Life: Eating Like It’s 1952
There’s something charming about the phrase “early supper.” It conjures up gingham tablecloths, a roast in the oven by 4 p.m., and families gathering around the table before the sun…
Seven Steps to Eating Fewer Carbs
The secret to the success of low-carb eating is that it avoids the spikes and high levels of blood sugar that contribute to weight gain and type 2 diabetes. While…
Alone, Not Lonely
They call every day a quiet day. And they like it that way. No calendar bursting with appointments. No dinner parties, no bingo nights, no forced small talk with people…
How Older Adults Can Push Back Against Loneliness
Loneliness doesn’t arrive all at once. It tiptoes in, quiet and polite at first — the sound of an unanswered phone, a table set for one, the way the days…
When Your Bladder Is the Boss
Let’s set the scene. You’re on a road trip. The playlist is perfect, the snacks are flowing, and spirits are high. And then — the twinge. That unmistakable signal from…
How to Eat Properly
In a world spinning faster every day, where meals are often gulped between meetings or scrolled through over screens, the art of eating properly has quietly slipped through our fingers.…
Could Ozempic Bankrupt Medicare?
In the world of modern medicine, Ozempic has become something of a star. A once-weekly injection that lowers blood sugar, improves heart health, and — in a surprising twist that…
Recipe: Classic Greek Salad (Horiatiki)
A Greek salad is a fresh, vibrant dish made with juicy tomatoes, crisp cucumbers, red onions, Kalamata olives, and feta cheese, all tossed in a simple dressing of olive oil,…
Learning to Stop Eating Too Much
It doesn’t always look dramatic. Sometimes it’s just another handful. One more slice. The leftovers you weren’t planning to eat, but now they’re gone. It might happen standing at the…
Why We Snack
It usually starts quietly. You’re not hungry, exactly. You’re just… in the kitchen. Or scrolling. Or tired. Or bored. And suddenly, your hand reaches for something — a bag of…
How the Food Industry Is Quietly Changing Under MAHA
For decades, the food industry has operated like a magician — dazzling us with flavor, seducing us with convenience, distracting us with health-washed packaging, all while hiding the real ingredients…
The Food Industry Is Slowly Killing Us
You walk into a grocery store. It smells faintly of fruit, bleach, and artificial vanilla. The shelves are packed with colorful boxes, clever labels, and promises. Low-fat! High-protein! Keto-friendly! Heart-healthy!…
If You’re This Big You Need Two Seats
Let’s just say it: airplane seats were not designed with big bodies in mind. Or long legs. Or hips wider than a salad plate. Or, frankly, basic human dignity. They’re…
All Meat, No Plants: The Carnivore Diet
It starts with a question that sounds almost like a dare: What if you ate nothing but meat? No grains. No vegetables. No fruit. No fiber. Just steak. Chicken. Eggs.…
Fat, Fuel, and Forkfuls: the Keto Diet
It usually starts with a headline. A friend. A transformation photo. Maybe a quiet, personal nudge — a feeling of being tired, heavy, out of sync with your body. And…
How Not to Diet
We’ve all heard the promises. “Lose ten pounds in ten days.” “Drop two sizes by summer.” “This time, it’ll work.” Diet culture doesn’t whisper — it shouts. And it’s loudest…
Diabetic Pedicures: More Than Just a Foot Scrub
For most people, a pedicure is a treat. A moment to unwind. A way to smooth out the rough edges — quite literally. But for someone living with diabetes, that…
“How Do I Clip My Toenails If I Can’t Reach Them?”
It’s one of those everyday things most people never think twice about. A simple, routine task: clipping your toenails. You grab the clippers, bend over, snip-snip, done. But what happens…
“I Wasn’t Always Fat. Why Am I Fat Now?”
There’s a moment that can sneak up on you — in a fitting room, a family photo, or catching your reflection in a window. A quiet realization: I’ve changed. My…
Is the The Wellness Industry Good For You?
Wellness is everywhere. It’s in your feed, your grocery store, your phone’s step tracker, and maybe even your morning routine. We light candles labeled “balance,” drink adaptogenic lattes, track our…
How Watching TV Can Fuel Anxiety
Tuning into the news used to be a daily ritual — a way to stay informed, feel connected, and understand what was happening in the world. But lately, for many…
How to Stop Worrying
Worry has a way of sneaking in — quietly, at first. A passing thought. A small “what if.” But soon, that thought turns into a loop, playing on repeat in…