Luckily, our bodies store vitamin A, but sometimes it is easy to fall behind the recommended daily intake. Include a rich dietary source, like Carrot Salad, on your menu often to keep your tank full!

Start your Independence Day right with these colorful, healthy muffins. Packed with antioxidants and fiber-rich, they are moist, mildly sweet, and will keep you going all morning long!

Along with the art of French cooking, American culinary icon Julia Child inspired us to not just love good food, but also to savory and share it with family and friends. Julia's autobiography, My Life in France, is an open invitation to a convivial dinner party with a lively hostess. Bon appetit!

Hot summer days call for cool, light foods. This delicious, ready-for-the picnic salad refreshes and still provided a healthy serving of vegetables and protein.

Tired of expensive granola bars? It's easy to make your own fresh, chewy, nutritious treats.

Strawberries are abundant in the early summer. Low in calories, high in nutritional value -- you can't go wrong serving strawberries! Try this delicious fruit pizza for a spectacular, easy dessert.

All too often, when we take a vacation from work, we take a vacation from our healthy lifestyle choices. Avoid these three nutrition pitfalls and you will return from your next vacation relaxed and still committed to good health.

Laurel's Kitchen is a vegetarian classic; a comfy room that smells of whole-wheat bread fresh from the oven and tomatoes ripening on the window sill. If you haven't visited yet, welcome in! You'll come away ready to try your hand at Laurel's vegetarian comfort food.

Web-based food journals are great tools for weight loss and tracking fiber, sodium, and other challenging nutrients. But access to journals associated with popular diet websites can be expensive. MyDietJournal is not only free, but slick, user-friendly, and loaded with great features.

Mexican food is one of my favorite cuisines, and it makes me sad to see it so often on “foods to avoid” lists for those of us trying to lose a little weight. But is Mexican food so bad, or is the problem what we do to it?