The right type of carbohydrates can boost your health!

What’s the difference between a sandwich made on white bread and one made with 100% whole grain bread?
Or, the difference between French fries and side salad made with spinach, tomatoes, carrots, and kidney beans?

All the foods above are carbohydrates. But the second option in both questions includes good carbohydrate foods (whole grains and vegetables).

Heart-healthy foods are essential to a heart-healthy diet.
If you want to eat a heart-healthy diet but are not sure what foods you should buy, check out this heart-healthy kitchen essentials guide. From fruits and vegetables to whole grain goodness, learn what foods to keep on hand.

Energy/Snack Bars

Here is a list of energy/ snack bars to try for in between meals, to have before a workout or take along in a race. Select different bars to achieve some variety. They are easy to use and taste great.

The Best Ways to Cut 100, 250, and 500+ Calories

Follow these easy, expert-tested tricks to drop the extra pounds—without dieting.

An excellent way to determine whether you're buying healthy food is to read the ingredient list. But who has time for that? When I'm in the grocery store, I race through the aisles like a lunatic, trying to keep my two young children from melting down or piling unwanted items into my cart.

Even if we weren't tempted by the endless array of unhealthy food products, we'd still be sabotaged by the explosion in portion sizes.

You’ve probably heard it before: Watch your portion sizes. But do you consistently pay close attention?  Portion size awareness is important for everyone with diabetes. Whether you’re counting carbohydrates to dose insulin or controlling portions to lose weight (or both), keeping portion sizes down can help control blood glucose levels and is usually crucial to weight loss.

For people keeping track of their blood fats, triglycerides may be the new lipid to watch, researchers said. A recent study found that the percentage of U.S. adults with high triglycerides had doubled over the past three decades, likely driven by climbing obesity rates.

Many of the nation's food and beverage giants, from ConAgra to Coca-Cola, are saying they will adopt the new Smart Choices Program front-of-package nutrition labeling system.

Don't sabotage healthy foods with unnecessary calories. It's easy to sabotage perfectly healthy meals by piling on lots of unnecessary calories. Even grilled fish and vegetables can be bad for you if they're prepared with plenty of artery-clogging fat, or served with lots of high-calorie extras.