Fluid retention, also called water retention or edema, occurs when your body retains too much water due to some hormonal imbalance, nutritional deficiency or disease process.

A well-prepared rack of ribs is one of the best arguments for long, slow cooking methods. Whether braised in your slow cooker, slow-roasted in your oven or smoke-roasted over low coals in traditional barbecue fashion, ribs cook to a lush, tender richness.

Beta-carotene is an orange-colored plant compound found in many fruits and vegetables, especially carrots. Like all other carotenoids, beta-carotene is a strong antioxidant capable of scavenging potentially harmful free radicals.

Copper is an essential trace mineral, which means your body only needs very small amounts of it for normal function. Elemental copper is not well-absorbed and high doses via supplements typically lead to stomach upset and other symptoms.

We know, it's so hard to resist walking by any Cinnabon, especially at the mall or airport where your healthy food options are already limited.

Cucumbers are a refreshing fruit that you can enjoy raw with salads, sandwiches or on their own. Very low in calories, cucumbers are fat and cholesterol free. However, some people experience gastrointestinal distress from some varieties of cucumbers because of a bitter substance called cucurbitacin.

Though picky eating is generally associated with toddlers and young children, many adults also have a hard time eating a variable diet filled with foods from each food group. If you've realized your picky eating problem and want to make changes, you've already taken the first step toward improving your health.

If you’ve ever tried to lose weight and failed, odds are you probably don't have a great relationship with your body. It’s not that you don’t want to make things better -- it's just that no matter what you do, you and your body struggle to get on the same page.

If you analyzed every “popular” weight-loss plan ever created, they’d all seem to have similar strategies – usually involving eating less, blaming certain foods for your problems, or prescribing “cheap” approaches that over-promise on results.

Eggs are a part of a healthy diet. Although eggs received a bad reputation for a while because of high cholesterol, eggs have more nutritional benefits than health risks. Eggs are high quality complete proteins that contain all nine essential amino acids.

Out of all the diets championed by health experts these days, veganism can seem like the most intimidating. The name almost sounds like a religion. And perhaps that’s fitting: Many vegans cite ethical reasons for why they only eat plant-based foods.

Bodybuilders strive to be big on stage, but they also need to be as lean as possible to show off their muscular definition. Since leaning out to this degree can cause a lot of stress to the body, it may also result in significant muscle loss.