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Close Like every kid who enjoyed the occasional Happy Meal growing up, I have always held a special (yellow, plastic) spot in my heart for McDonald’s. I remember making friends in the sleek, candy-colored Play Places, coveting the flimsy, free toys. In second grade, I committed the entire ’80s-era jingle “Menu Song” to memory (you remember: “Big Mac, McDLT, a quarter pounder with some cheese…") and sang it to a rapt audience of kindergarteners on the school bus....

Close 2018 was a busy one. Work was crazy, my husband and I adopted a puppy, and I had seven weddings to attend, two of which I was in, which meant bachelorette parties, bridal showers and more. It was a very exciting and super-busy year! My schedule was packed and it took its toll on my health. I was stressed out, I wasn’t exercising, sleeping all that great or making healthy eating a priority, and I had all these extra opportunities to eat and drink just a bit more than my body needed....

Photo: On behalf of Elaine Welteroth As a partner in the initiative, Welteroth sees this as a great opportunity to share two of the recipes that best represent her blended African American, German and Irish heritage. These includefried cornbread frittersandsmothered cabbage soup with potatoes, a favorite of her mom, who is Black and from the South, and her father, who is of German and Irish heritage. We sat down with Welteroth to talk about food and family....

What a year this is for Thanksgiving! As we figure out how to do it virtually or in smaller groups or socially distanced, we are struck with deep appreciation for what we normally take for granted: the beauty of gathering loved ones to cook and eat together, to laugh and argue and celebrate. Though we might not be elbow-to-elbow with them, the people we have in our lives are more important than ever....

In This ArticleView AllIn This ArticleHow Was This Study Conducted?What Did the Study Find?How Does This Apply to Real Life? In This ArticleView All View All In This Article How Was This Study Conducted? What Did the Study Find? How Does This Apply to Real Life? Close Photo:Brie Goldman Brie Goldman The Mediterranean diet has plenty of benefits, whether you’re concerned aboutyour blood sugaror justwant to extend your life. And it’s no surprise that every time we turn around, yet another study comes out to remind us just how great the Mediterranean diet can be....

Read more:7 Secrets to Living Longer from 100-Year-Olds Researchers are now focusing less on the number of birthday candles on the cake and more on our “health span”—extending the number of years we can live free of the infirmities we’ve come to associate with aging, from a foggier memory and creaking joints to a weakened immune system and greater risk of cancer. Rather than chalking up those indignities to “just getting older,” experts are looking at them as largely preventable and sometimes even reversible....

Close I’ve lost my ability to smell before—usually thanks to a gnarly cold. I bet you have, too. I’ve also hindered my sense of taste after scorching my tongue on something I was too eager to drink or eat that needed more time to cool off. I’m guessing you’ve done that as well. But I’ve never lost both at the same time—nor have I lost taste and smell in what felt like complete entirety....

Close Photo:Design elements: Getty Images. Collage: Cassie Basford. Design elements: Getty Images. Collage: Cassie Basford. Psoriasisis a chronic condition that can cause inflammation in the body due to immune system dysfunction. It can present itself in different forms, from plaque psoriasis impacting the texture of the skin topsoriatic arthritiscausing discomfort in your joints, tendons and ligaments. Chronic illness advocate, founder of the organizationChroniconand podcast host Nitika Chopra has been managing plaque psoriasis since childhood....

Close Photo: Total Wine/Drizly Is it just us, or is hard seltzer going to rule the pool this season as summer’s beverage of choice? We’ve seen spiked seltzer brands start to pop up over the last few years, but 2019 is proving to be their year. And with a whole host of flavors, from Aldi’s Coconut Mango to Bon & Viv Spiked Seltzer’s Black Cherry Rosemary, there’s no shortage of exciting options to choose from these days....

Close Photo:Image and pattern: Getty images, Design: EatingWell Image and pattern: Getty images, Design: EatingWell Prior to watching Ina make the classic dish on her debut cooking show,Barefoot Contessa,in 2003, my attempts at making roast chicken included blunders such as bathing the bird (yes, with soap) and producing a chicken that managed to have both charred skin and raw insides. Maybe it was Ina’s calm voice or just the way she made every step seem so simple that gave me the courage to give it another go....

Tarique Eastman Their story is similar to my family’s. At least three of my father’s grand­parents traveled from Punjab, India, to Trinidad in the 1850s. As bonded field workers, they farmed sugar and cocoa fields for the English who, needing an­ other cheap source of labor following the end of slavery in their colonies, looked to other brown nations like India and China. Along with half a million others, theirs was a story of British imperial hegemony, which moved Indian people across the globe as indentured laborers to places like Trinidad and Guyana in the Western Hemisphere and Fiji and Mauritius in the Southern Hemisphere....

Close Photo:Getty Images. EatingWell collage. Getty Images. EatingWell collage. Inflammation is your body’s natural response to injury, illness or infection. Initially, it acts as a protective mechanism and can start off the healing process. In the short term, that’s a positive. However, when inflammation becomes chronic, it can contribute to wear and tear on our bodies. When inflammation becomes persistent, it can lead to a phenomenon known as “inflammaging.”This clever term, which combines the words “inflammation” and “aging,” highlights chronic inflammation’s role in accelerating the aging process....

Photo: Jon Kopaloff/Stringer/Getty Images Most of us are used to seeing the fabulous side of Jennifer Garner, but the actress grew up simpler than one would expect. Garner grew up in Charleston, West Virginia, a city with a population of just under 50,000. Garner’s mother grew up in an even smaller town—Locust Grove, Oklahoma—where her family ran a farm. Now Garner is utilizing her family’s farm roots for a new product in herOnce Upon a Farmorganic food line....