Glycemic Index: How Helpful in Promoting Long-Term Health? Foods with a low GI are digested and absorbed more slowly, causing a more gradual rise in blood sugar and preventing rapid spikes in insulin levels.

What's Your Relationship with Food? Regardless of how emotional eating begins, recognizing the signs and developing a new approach to eating are essential skills that are necessary to build a healthier relationship with food and with yourself.

Pizza: Your Choices Make the Difference Americans have a love affair with pizza. But can you guess how many calories are consumed with each slice? Is it 150? Or closer to 320? Maybe 530? Actually, depending on the type of pizza and size of the slice, all of these figures are correct.

Make Your Muscles Work While the term "strength training" may elicit images of a Speedo-clad Arnold Schwarzenegger, bodybuilders encompass only a fraction of strength-training enthusiasts. In fact, from marathoners to moms, everyone can benefit from increasing their muscle mass.

All You Can Eat: The Trouble with Buffets The next time you're overcome by the temptations of an overflowing buffet table, you can attribute at least a part of your overindulgence to natural instinct. But how do you approach a buffet table and not over-indulge?

Does "Zero Trans Fat" Mean It's Healthy? When you see a food labeled "zero trans fat," can you automatically assume it's a better choice? Not so fast...

Does Pregnancy Affect Long-Term Weight Control? The Stockholm Pregnant and Women's Nutrition (SPAWN) study is a follow-up study that has followed about 500 Swedish women through pregnancy and for more than a decade post-partum.

How Much to Exercise The emerging message of exercise studies seems to be: the benefits of physical activity vary with how much you do. This article discusses several studies and what the results may mean to anyone interested in getting into shape.

Blood Sugar: A Piece in the Cancer Risk Puzzle A major new study has added to evidence suggesting that high blood sugar and problems in sugar metabolism may increase cancer risk.

Nutritional Gatekeeper: How Big a Role? For many years, research found that one person in each family called the Gatekeeper controls the majority of food purchased and eaten by all family members. Now some question whether cultural changes are removing gatekeepers' power.

Getting the Most Nutrients out of Cooked Vegetables Boosting vegetable consumption is an important step to promoting overall health, but preparing them in a way that maximizes their nutritional value is important, too. Find out which methods are the best.

Sodium: Questions Remain After many years of study, researchers now say that sodium may influence the blood pressure and heart health of some people more than others. Meanwhile, research has raised questions about how sodium consumption may affect two other serious health concerns: stomach cancer and osteoporosis.

Fast Food: Is Portion the Problem? People eating at fast food restaurants often underestimate the calories in their meals by 12 to 41 percent, according to studies. The bad news is the more you eat, the more likely you are to underestimate your meal's calories.

When Exercise is a Battle We are surrounded by messages about the importance of physical activity. So why do so many of us have such trouble starting or sticking with a plan to be more active?