The best meal delivery services for seniors bring pre-measured ingredients or premade meals (your choice) right to your door. Most take dietary restrictions into account, and some have menus that are specially crafted around certain health conditions. This makes it easy to eat nutritionally balanced, nourishing meals each day with minimal effort on your part. Below, find our favorite meal delivery services for seniors. Meal kits are available in two- or four-serving boxes, and you can choose from a minimum of two meals weekly to a maximum of five....

In addition to nutrient-dense diets, little habits can help you detox every single day. Below, Chen offers her nonnegotiable tips: It’s a mistake Chen sees all the time: People become enamored with “liver detoxes” and the like, but only a few actually target gut health. If you’re constipated or have an unhealthy balance of bacteria, she notes, you may be sabotaging your body’s natural detoxification process. Even if you are pooping regularly, make sure you’re pooping properly....

For many women, coming off of the pill signals the beginning of unpleasant symptoms referred to as post-birth-control syndrome (PBCS), which can include moodiness, fatigue, and headaches, along with saying goodbye to regular periods1. An abnormal loss of menstruation is what medicine refers to as amenorrhea, and there are a few reasons this can happen. If you have just come off of birth control and are wondering where the heck your period is, let’s break down the different types of amenorrhea and some tips for getting your period back stat....

Here’s what you need to know about glutathione, what it does for your health, and how to make sure you’re getting what you need. Left unchecked, free radicals and oxidative stress contribute to a variety of health concerns, as well as the aging process4. You’ll find glutathione in every tissue and fluid throughout the body; it’s that important. Also unsurprising given its role in detoxification: The highest concentrations of glutathione in the body are found in the liver and kidneys....

So rather than trying to prevent loneliness, I’m going to try use the techniques and reminders I have for the past few years to cope with the discomfort. While the current state of our world may be feeding into those feelings of loneliness as we sit at home, here are five things to think about: Our society tends to pathologize it by portraying lonely people as flawed, weak or not enlightened enough; yet these are unhelpful products of our independence-valuing culture....

Functional medicine nutritionist Dana James shares how she helps her clients shift their mindset to create healthier eating patterns. For more great tips from Dana, check out her video course, How to Ditch Sugar. As a functional medicine nutritionist and cognitive behavioral therapist, I’m privy to the inner workings of a client’s mind and behavior around food. What trips them up from consistently following a clean diet is not lack of willpower but rather a reflexive action to use food as a distraction, a reward, or to placate an emotion....

Today, I haven’t had a drink in almost two years—not a little. Not on occasion. Not at all. Most surprising? I’m happy about it. Here are a few reasons why I no longer drink: So daily drinking snuck up on me. It really started with my career in marketing. It was made clear to me that the networking opportunities at the bar were very important. So I began to drink at work functions and business trips....