It would be fair to assume that being an editor at New York Times Cooking makes my dinner decisions easier. After all, I’m thumbing through our vast recipe archive almost daily, revisiting old standbys, discovering unsung supper heroes and meeting new classics. I can tell you, as someone whose choice fatigue looks more like choice…
Q: I’ve heard that it’s bad for dinner to be your biggest meal of the day. Is that true? The maxim has been around for decades: “Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper.” It’s not bad advice, experts say. It’s also the opposite of how most people in…
If you’re among the millions of Americans who made a New Year’s resolution to lose weight, exercise or eat better, here’s one more reason to stick with it: Doing so can protect your heart. Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States. And habits like smoking, poor diet and a sedentary…
This is Day 5 of the 5-Day Healthier Eating Challenge. To start at the beginning, click here. This week, we’ve thought a lot about our eating habits: We’ve tested our knowledge of ultraprocessed foods, examined them with our senses, made flavor-packed snacks and shopped for groceries. Before this challenge, I would chuck food into my…
But regularly meeting your recommended daily dose of vitamin C (including on days when you’re healthy) can help your immune system do its job, which could shorten the length of a cold when you do get one. One 2013 meta-analysis found that consuming at least 200 milligrams of vitamin C daily helped people kick the…
This is Day 4 of the 5-Day Healthier Eating Challenge. To start at the beginning, click here. So far, these challenges have kept you at home. You’ve scanned ingredients lists, conducted a taste test and zhuzhed up some snacks — all without straying too far from your kitchen. But today, we’re heading to a real-life…
Aimee Tritt, a dietitian in Minneapolis, said she sees the same pattern over and over: People want to become healthier, so they abruptly overhaul their diets, only to burn out a few weeks later. If this has happened to you, know that you’re not a failure, said Ms. Tritt, who also teaches dietetics at the…
This is Day 3 of the 5-Day Healthier Eating Challenge. To start at the beginning, click here. Americans are snacking more than ever. A recent survey suggested that 95 percent of us now eat at least one snack a day, and most of us eat two or more. When a craving hits, many people reach…