This vegetable maintains one of the highest glycemic index values of any food, and causes your blood sugar levels to rise rapidly. In turn, your blood insulin concentrations simultaneously increase. When these two metabolic responses occur repeatedly, you become insulin resistant.

Sit-ups and crunches are among the most well-known and boring of exercises. What’s more, working out alone can be tedious and it can be difficult to self-motivate. But these “buddy” exercises are made to be fun.

It starts with a throbbing, itching or uncomfortable sensation in the legs and an overwhelming need to move them. Shifting the legs relieves the discomfort temporarily, but the symptoms soon return and sleep is elusive. But relief doesn’t have to be…

If you’re concerned about your blood sugar and want to avoid diabetes… want to lose weight and build muscle… then this is the superfood for you. Skipping the cereal, bread and bagels for breakfast and opting for eggs also leads to significant weight loss…

Timing is everything, even when it comes to cancer. Disrupting your circadian rhythm by eating at odd times, staying up late and using bright lights at night distorts your hormone production, making tumors more likely. But you can repair the damage…

If you’re like me, you’re probably tired of seeing anorexic-looking models and hearing about how to achieve their ridiculous “thigh gap.” But there is one very important reason you should still pay attention to the amount of weight you carry on your thighs…

There are places in the world where common diseases actually rarely occur. Why? The jury is still out, but maybe we can adopt their disease-free principles and live longer and healthier too.

Smokers are ditching old-fashioned cigarettes for electronic ones. Additionally, a lot of young people are taking up the habit because, like their older counterparts thought decades earlier, they’re operating under the misguided opinion that smoking is cool.

The end of a year offers a natural time to take pause, to reflect and look at where you are in life and health. To be honest, I am not one for New Year’s resolutions; they always elude me and make me feel like I failed myself.

The Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) has come up with 7 study-backed ways to curb your appetite. The trick? Eat foods that keep you feeling fuller longer.

Can you exercise too much? That is the question that a group of researchers set out to answer by reviewing several studies — and what they found is surprising.

I came across an article that revealed this new flash: Eating when you’re not hungry might be less advantageous for your health than eating when you’re hungry. But “the why” is pretty interesting. Turns out the human body will actually process what you eat differently depending on if you’re hungry or not…