Ah, road trips. The days of packing up and shuttling your entire family off to the beach for the day may be over this season, but that doesn’t mean you won’t be taking mini-vacations to fend off burnout or traveling home to see family you’ve been separated from all year.…
It’s 6 AM. You’re up bright and early, ready to start your week out on the right foot. The next hour is blocked off in your calendar for your morning run. You eye a mouth-watering muffin sitting on your counter for a moment before reluctantly grabbing an apple on…
What comes to mind when you think of the word “snacks?” Is it buckets of popcorn, bags of chips, or sleeves of cookies? Probably. Is that surprising? No. Somehow over the years, many of us learned to associate snacking with junk food and candy. And even worse, we’ve learned to…
After years of uncertainty, business travel is booming again. Although industry group Global Business Travel Association is still crunching the data, it projects business travel spending grew by 7.1 percent worldwide last year. By 2022, GBTA predicts the market will be nearly $400 billion larger than it was in 2017.…
Whether you have celiac disease or not, gluten might cause gut issues. Mounting evidence shows that, particularly for people with irritable bowel syndrome and similar food sensitivities, eating wheat proteins in significant quantities may cause inflammation and impair digestion. Take IBS, which affects around 10 to 15 percent of Americans.…
It might be time to tweak your diet: According to a landmark study on spicy food consumption, the “no pain, no gain” principle really does hold water. With a sample size of 0.5 million adults, Chinese researchers discovered that participants who ate spicy foods at least six days per week…
Sometimes, it seems like Americans can’t agree on anything. Their eating habits, it appears, are no exception. Since 2014, the number of Americans who identify as vegans has grown by more than 600 percent. On the other hand, U.S. meat consumption hit a record high last year, with 96 percent…