Jonny Bowden PhD CNS

The American Heart Association's revised position on coconut oil may be new, but the logic behind it is old.

Keto isn't just about weight loss anymore. It's a whole-health plan that can benefit your brain, liver and more – if you do it right.

Beans and lentils are such healthy foods – so why aren't they eaten on the Paleo diet? Here's why legumes and lentils aren't a fit for this specialized diet.

Athletes are increasingly turning to beets – and you could benefit from this colorful root vegetable too. Learn how beets can improve heart and brain health, endurance and circulation.

Your liver is extremely important to health, metabolism and the ability to lose weight, burn fat and detoxify the body. Here's how to keep it healthy.

Burning fat is the most popular weight loss goal. However, in order to achieve this, you might need to rethink your approach to fat.

If you're an athlete, take note of these nutrients to ensure you're getting enough for maximum energy and better recovery.

A new Johnson & Johnson award-winning ingredient may be the next frontier in immunity supplementation.

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In an uncertain climate, there’s one thing you can do: Reinforce your health to the best of your ability to weather any storm. Here’s how.

In an uncertain climate, there's one thing you can do: Reinforce your health to the best of your ability to weather any storm. Here's how.

Jonny Bowden shares a few basic steps you can take to keep your immune system functioning optimally.

The clean-eating movement is getting a bad rap in some circles, especially online, for being associated with disordered eating. Here’s what our resident nutritionist and columnist Jonny Bowden thinks about the negative press.

In study after study, certain lifestyle behaviors rise to the top of the list of commonalities among the longest-living people. Read on to find out what they are and exactly what each means.

How healthy is a high-fat ketogenic diet?

If you’ve ever wondered why oysters have a reputation as an aphrodisiac –and who hasn’t? – blame it on Italian bon vivant and adventurer Giacomo Casanova (you may have heard of him).

I always assumed that coffee doesn’t belong on a clean diet since everyone’s always trying to “detox” from caffeine.

The subject of GMO foods is one I stayed away from for a long time. Quite honestly, I thought the whole hysteria about GMO was a bit of a tempest in a teapot. After all, I reasoned, we’ve been playing around with mixing genes for a long time — that’s why we have hybrid plants and 184 different breeds of dogs in the American Kennel Club. What’s the big deal? If you can genetically modify some types of rice so that they have more protein, why would that be a bad thing?

Until recently, fat was considered the root of all dietary evil. It’s been blamed — and in some quarters, continues to be blamed — for obesity, heart disease, diabetes and even cancer. But fat has quietly been making a comeback.