By Matthew N. Skoufalos From the OR to the blacktop to the dojo mat, Marla Packer-Perdunn, MDS, RN, lives a life of movement, hard work and emotional honesty. The motorcycle and martial arts enthusiast got her first taste of caregiving at age 15, when she signed up to...
By Marilynn Preston, Energy Express James Watson went to my high school – hail to the Tars of South Shore high – so perhaps that helps explain my longtime interest in the science of genetics and DNA and the twisted role it plays or doesn’t play in our own health and...
An army of nutrition experts is constantly reminding you that most fast food is bad for your health. But they’re not around to back you up when your children or grandchildren unleash powerful weapons of cuteness to convince you to stop at a fast-food chain. It’s hard...
A healthful one-dish meal ready in 20 minutes By Lanier Norville Try this Japanese-inspired dish for a light, simple weeknight meal. The leftovers keep well for a pack-and-go lunch the next day. If you’d like to sneak more veggies into your diet, make this main-course...
By the editors at EatingWell.com Mercury in fish, BPA in food-storage containers, and the list goes on. We hear so much about toxic compounds that reach our food that it’s easy to become afraid of eating, well, anything. But it’s important to keep things in...