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Healthy Foods that Help You Sleep & Foods to Avoid Before Bed

Sleep is critical to our health as it affects every aspect from our immune systems to our risk for developing diabetes and heart disease. Eating a healthy diet isn’t going to ensure you get 8 restful...

What to Eat Before Exercising

Knowing what to eat before exercising can have a major impact on your workout and physical performance. Too much food beforehand can leave you feeling queasy and nauseous. Too little food can leave yo...

The Worst Dinner That's Slowing Down Your Metabolism, According To A Nutritionist

After a long, stressful day, dinner often turns into a search for comfort. Maybe you’re craving a warm bowl of stew or a classic plate of meat and potatoes—and that’s completely norm...

Healthy Snack Options to Satisfy Your Sweet Tooth

If you believe you eat too much sugar, why not try cutting back rather than abstaining 100 percent? Forcing yourself to eat no sugar at all for any length of time increases the likelihood of binging o...

Does “Fresh” Always Mean Fresh?

If you are a frequent consumer of health information, you have probably heard the recommendation to “eat fresh food” quite often. But what does that actually mean? The term “fresh,” when used on the l...

Ways to Start Dieting if You Hate Dieting

Unfortunately, too many people associate the word “diet” with deprivation. But it doesn’t have to be that way! Let’s break it down. The word “diet” simply means the kinds of food that a person habitua...

Why and How to Avoid Processed Foods

Most people associate the term "processed food" with unhealthy food. While that is sometimes the case it is not the case all the time. How do you know if what you are eating is healthy? Is something t...

Facts About Fat

Dietary fat has long been a villain of the dietary world. Everywhere you went, the message was loud and clear: fat is bad. However, fats are making a comeback! Of course it’s not that simple, be...

Active Lifestyle Counters Aging

This article is written by Seattle Sutton, RN, founder of Seattle Sutton’s Healthy Eating. With decades of experience helping people live healthier, more vibrant lives, Seattle shares her insigh...

How to Relieve Stress with Your Diet

In a perfect world, we would all function according to our internal clocks. But, our fast paced world demands trick our body into being awake when it’s tired, and sleepy when it’s awake. For some, thi...

Start Your Day Off Right with a Healthy Breakfast

If you decided to make and keep only one New Year’s resolution this year, make sure you eat a healthy breakfast every morning. Here are my top 4 reasons to start your day off right with a health...

The Power of Positive Thinking

You are either one type of person or the other in life. An optimist or pessimist. Do you see the glass as half full or half empty? Turns out, your answer can have a great impact on your health and m...

Foods to Chase Winter Blues Away

Do the winter blues have you down? Many people do and tend to eat more calories during these months, as a result of turning to comfort food. There are better and healthier ways to turn those frowns up...

Getting More Energy During the Winter Months

For me, winter means hibernation, comfy clothes and comfort food! It's cold and the days are shorter, putting a drain on our drive and energy. This can easily translate to putting on some extra pounds...

Starting Your Post Holiday Diet

Healthy Habits After the Holidays: Dietitian-Approved Tips to Reset and Recharge It’s not easy to eat healthy or maintain weight while the holidays are upon us. That's why so many people look fo...

Seattle Sutton’s List of Things to Be Thankful For

With Thanksgiving just around the corner, I wanted to take time to reflect on all the things I’m thankful for this year. It’s not about material possessions, no, it’s about health, family, friends and...

Healthy Habits to Keep Your Diet on the Right Path

Are you one of the many people confused by all the conflicting healthy eating recommendations? Or perhaps someone who knows what to do, but has a hard time putting it into practice on a daily basis? F...

Seattle Sutton’s Halloween Solution

Each Halloween I love to treat the little ghosts and goblins with a special treat they don’t get elsewhere. We started this Sutton family tradition more than 40 years ago, even before I started Seattl...