Feeding and Diet

A few years ago, I worked with a woman who had decided to stop her nighttime bingeing by locking her food in cabinets and giving her husband the key. “It sounded like a perfect plan,” she said, “until I spent the hours after my husband went to sleep ...

A few years ago, I worked with a woman who had dec...

My mother has a name for the elaborate, wrongheaded tales we tell ourselves. She calls them Jack Stories.Here’s the original: One day, Jack had a flat tire on the side of the road. (This was before spare tires, cell phones, navigation systems, and AA...

My mother has a name for the elaborate, wrongheade...

Everything you do — from sleeping to eating a bowl of rocky road ice cream — burns calories. Likewise, every bodily function, like digestion, blood circulation, and breathing, takes effort. The energy, or calories, your body burns just to keep you al...

Everything you do — from sleeping to eating a bowl...

You diet more than ever, but don’t weigh less. Exercise regularly, but still feel flabby. And your once perfectly fitting clothes now seem snug.If you’re nodding your head in agreement, chances are you’re in the over-35 club. Like most members, you p...

You diet more than ever, but don’t weigh less. Exe...

Everyone's days are numbered. And fretting about your weight or the size of your thighs won't do a stitch of good. Here's what will.My friend Catherine recently told me about a 50-year-old friend of hers who'd been a member of a sewing circle for 10 ...

Everyone's days are numbered. And fretting about y...

There's no need to shop for special tools or costly appliances to make healthier meals — your kitchen is likely already stocked with the necessary tools to whip up lower-fat, lower-calorie dishes. Keep in mind these seven no-gimmick guidelines. In ad...

There's no need to shop for special tools or costl...

Take our quiz, then find the best, research-proven ways to keep chocolate and cookies and chips from wrecking your diet. Also, be sure to watch this video on how to beat cravingsYou're going along, minding your own business, when it hits — an intense...

Take our quiz, then find the best, research-proven...

Are you serious about eating healthy? You've come to the perfect place. The Good Housekeeping nutrition experts are serving up monthly plans with seven-day menus that are balanced, tasty, and easy to make. Many meals can be made in 10 minutes. The pa...

Are you serious about eating healthy? You've come ...

These round-the-clock strategies will help you drop the pounds fast — no matter how crazy your life is.After my son was born, I managed to lose the 40 pounds of baby weight within a year. The kid weight? It's still hanging around, and Patrick is now ...

These round-the-clock strategies will help you dro...

Think of this as your weekend to kick back — to relax your body, rekindle your spirit. But it's more: During these two days, you'll be able to turn around unhealthy eating habits and jump-start your workout routine, key moves if you want to drop poun...

Think of this as your weekend to kick back — to re...

Follow this luxurious low-cal meal plan to jump-start your diet over the weekend. Also be sure to check out these mini-workouts to get your heart pumpingThis menu allows you to eat as you wish, whether you're cooking for the family or on the go. The ...

Follow this luxurious low-cal meal plan to jump-st...

These easy-to-follow diet and exercise tips will help you lose five pounds (or more) — and keep it off.Lose five pounds fast with this simple exercise trick that cuts your cardio time down to just a half hour per day. Low-Carb PastaIf you're trying t...

These easy-to-follow diet and exercise tips will h...

These days, anti-aging cosmetics can seem more like food than beauty potions: Everything from pomegranate to soy is being infused into creams, cleansers, and serums. But applying products on your skin's surface is no substitute for actually eating th...

These days, anti-aging cosmetics can seem more lik...

Gwyneth Paltrow has done it as part of her famous cleanses.The View's Elisabeth Hasselbeck touts its benefits, too. And thousands of other women have hopped on this latest dietary bandwagon, which calls for avoiding all products that contain gluten —...

Gwyneth Paltrow has done it as part of her famous ...

Sweet and tangy tamarind is one of the widely used condiment spice found in every South Asian kitchens! The tree is very large with long heavy drooping branches and dense foliage. Fully grown up may tree reach up to 80 feet in height. During each sea...

Sweet and tangy tamarind is one of the widely used...

Horseradish is a long, tapering root used as a condiment in the kitchens. The root has strong, hot, and sharp flavor, which can be only be described after experiencing its unique taste! Botanically, the spicy, pungent root belongs to the genus Armora...

Horseradish is a long, tapering root used as a con...

Fragrant rich cinnamon spice is one of the highly prized spices, has been in use since biblical times for its medicinal and culinary properties. This delightfully exotic, sweet flavored spice stick comes from the outer brown bark of cinnamomum tree, ...

Fragrant rich cinnamon spice is one of the highly ...

Strongly aromatic and flavorful fenugreek seeds are popular spices widely used for their well recognized for culinary as well as for medicinal properties. Traditionally, fenugreeks are being used to cure digestive problems and to improve breast milk ...

Strongly aromatic and flavorful fenugreek seeds ar...

Nutty and pleasant in taste, poppy seeds are nutritious oilseeds used as condiment in cooking. They are the seeds obtained from the dry fruits (pods) of poppy plant (opium poppy) and entirely free from any sinister side effects of other products popp...

Nutty and pleasant in taste, poppy seeds are nutri...

Saffron is one of the highly prized spices known since antiquity for its color, flavor and medicinal properties. It is the dried "stigma" or threads of the flower of the S. crocus plant. The plant is a bulbous perennial plant that belongs to the fami...

Saffron is one of the highly prized spices known s...

Are you caught with gripping stomach pain? Having few sips of coriander seeds along with dill, caraway, fennel, and aniseed from your granny's kitchen is perhaps the most effective carminative remedy for this ailment. Coriander is tender hollow stemm...

Are you caught with gripping stomach pain? Having ...