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Getty Images If you’re one of the millions of Americans with low back pain, chances are you’ve tried a variety of lifestyle adjustments and remedies to improve your symptoms. Although it may help to upgrade to a high-tech mattress or an ergonomic office chair, new research suggests that you may be able to improve your back pain via a less obvious (and less expensive) route: by changing the foods you eat every day. The research, presented at the February 2021 Association of Academic Physiatr...

Victor Torres/Stocksy In a world where different fad diets fall in and out of favor, a high-fiber diet consistently checks every box when it comes to fueling good health. Eating foods that are higher in fiber can reduce the risk of chronic disease and make you feel full longer, which can help you stay at a healthy weight, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). RELATED:  If those health benefits aren’t already enough to have you reaching for a bowl of berries or handful of ...

January 6, 2021 Relying on cookbooks for recipe inspiration can help take the guesswork out of eating on a keto diet. Carolyn Lagattuta/Stocksy Are you considering going on the ketogenic diet? Before you start filling your shopping cart with grass-fed butter and bacon, know this: While you’ve likely heard about this high-fat, very low carbohydrate diet — and you probably even have a friend or two who have tried it — theres still a lot of confusion about what it really takes to follow keto...

December 18, 2020 Diet fads tend to come and go. Will the same hold true for the most popular diets of 2021? Igor Madjinca/Stocksy Losing weight or eating better on your mind these days? Theres no shortage of weight loss diets grappling for your attention. And the reality is that most diets — the good and bad — will help you shed pounds in the short term. But the difference is in keeping them off, and that relies on having a doable plan that you can stick with for life. Usually, that means ...

A retrospective study that looked at pregnancies between 2009 and 2016 published December 18, 2020, in Human Reproduction found that if a father-to-be has three or more medical conditions that are part of metabolic syndrome: obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, or high cholesterol, the risk for losing a pregnancy was 27 percent compared with 10 percent for men who had no medical conditions. RELATED: There’s a Link Between Paternal Health and Pregnancy Loss “Preconception counseling, th...