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The Pros and Cons of Being Vegan

A vegan lifestyle can be good for your health and the environment too. Here’s what you need to know.

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How to Increase Plant-Based Foods in Your Diet

Tips for more of your foods to come from plant sources, making plants a main part of your diet. You don’t completely eliminate dairy, eggs, meats and fish. You just eat less of these foods.

The Flexitarian Diet: Is It Right For You?

The Flexitarian Diet: Is It Right For You?

This may be the flexible diet solution you’ve been looking for.

2 Healthy Diets Protect Your Heart Equally Well

2 Healthy Diets Are Equally Good for Your Heart

Two eating plans—a vegetarian diet that includes eggs and dairy, and the Mediterranean diet—protect your heart equally, a new study shows.

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The Best Soup Recipes for Weight Loss

Try these hearty, healthy soups as part of your winter weight-loss program. They're loaded with vegetables—not with cheese and cream.

Plate Salad With Tomatoes and Cucumbers

Plate Salad With Tomatoes and Cucumbers

This quick and easy summer salad is best with garden-fresh tomatoes and cucumbers, but can be made any time of year—and there's no need for lettuce.

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Blueberries! Fresh From the Field

Midsummer is the perfect time to pick and eat fresh produce, and few things are easier or better for you than picking and eating blueberries.

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How to Join a CSA Farm Share

Get plenty of locally grown fresh produce each week with a CSA farm share.

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Strawberries, White Bean, and Edamame Salad

Spring brings fresh strawberries, and this salad is a wonderful way to combine fruit, grains, beans and greens for an explosion of flavors.

My Mother's Passover Cake, Enlightened

My Mother's Passover Cake, Enlightened

This is a reduced-cholesterol version of a traditional Pesach Chocolate Cake made in a tube pan. You may also omit the chocolate.

Doughless Potato Knishes

Doughless Potato Knishes

Potato knishes are easy to make and perfect to serve as part of the Passover meal.

French Spinach Frittata

French Spinach Frittata

Add scallions, spinach and feta cheese to this classic oven-baked egg dish for a healthy frittata you can serve for breakfast, lunch, brunch or dinner.

Top 10 Corn Recipes

Top 10 Corn Recipes

Corn is synonymous with summer, but if you're tired of plain old corn on the cob, try these top 10 corn recipes.

Ginger Spiced Tofu Cupcakes

Ginger Spiced Tofu Cupcakes

Tofu replaces egg in these ginger-spiced cupcakes, so they make a tasty treat for vegetarians and vegans.

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Vegetarian Diets Called Good for People and the Planet

Vegetarian diets are healthy for people of all ages, as well as the environment, according to a new update of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics' (AND) position on vegetarian diets.

3 Healthy, Plant-Based, Kid-Friendly Recipes

3 Healthy, Plant-Based, Kid-Friendly Recipes

If you're a parent who's in a rut of always preparing the same foods, succumbing to "what works" or relying on dairy and wheat to get by, then try one of these fresh, healthy recipes.

Bulgur Pilaf With Roasted Brussels Sprouts

Bulgur Pilaf With Roasted Brussels Sprouts

Bulgur wheat is a nutrition-packed whole grain that can be used to create a variety dishes, like this bulgur pilaf with roasted Brussels sprouts.

How to Eat More Whole Grains

How to Eat More Whole Grains

If you want to include more whole grains in your diet, here are some tips on what they are and how to eat them.

Roasted Brussels Sprouts and Grapes

Roasted Brussels Sprouts and Grapes

This recipe for roasted Brussels sprouts and grapes is simple, healthy and delicious and can be adapted to suit your tastes.