Each organ works to eliminate excess waste that’s produced by natural metabolic processes, otherwise known as toxins. Here’s a guide on how to support each of your detox organs with specific nutrients from food. It reigns over all toxins of the body by cleaning and filtering every ounce of blood and metabolizing all chemical substances, even the good kinds. Bitter foods and foods that promote the body’s production of internal antioxidants, especially glutathione, are best for liver detoxification....

If you follow the paleo diet, meal delivery subscriptions are an easy way to discover new recipes and simplify your time in the kitchen. So, we’ve rounded up the best paleo meal delivery services to help you narrow your search. On the paleo diet, you’ll stick to meat, fish, eggs, veggies (with an emphasis on leafy greens), fruit, nuts, and minimally processed oils. Whether you cook using primitive tools over an open flame is up to you—kidding, of course!...

Here’s what you need to know about this useful but dangerous resource: Since the U.S. enacted mandatory trans fat labeling laws nationwide in 2008, palm oil has served as its replacement in a ton of packaged cookies, crackers, ice creams and other calorie-high treats. Earlier this summer, the FDA called for a complete ban of trans fats in food by 2018, which will most likely drive demand for the oil up even more....

Here’s everything you need to know to keep this adaptable houseplant happy. “Because of the wide range of habitats that they can be found in, they are fairly easygoing and adaptable to most home environments,” explains Chris Satch, a plant specialist at Horti. Most philodendrons would do well placed near a window that gets a fair amount of light but isn’t scorched by the sun all day. (Remember, these babies thrive in the tropics, so they’re used to a little shade....

Here, we demystify some common misconceptions about a plant-based diet, explore some of the benefits, and show you how to get started if you want to lead a more plant-based lifestyle. While there is no set definition, a plant-based way of eating focuses on consuming plant-derived whole foods that are unrefined and minimally processed. This means pure, unadulterated ingredients that are in their original form. In terms of what you eat, whole grains, fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, tubers, and legumes are the dietary staples....

But why are plant-based foods so powerful? Why do I repeat over and over to my heart patients to get seven to 10 servings a day of brightly colored fruits and vegetables? For example, just this week the news channels reported a story that blueberries improve both blood pressure and the healthy flexibility of arteries, making them act younger. Time to pay attention for a one-minute food chemistry lesson. Polyphenols are a group of plant-based chemicals that have at least one phenol group (don’t ask me why we don’t call some monophenols — I don’t know)....

When the founder of Outdoor Afro, a nonprofit that facilitates outdoor experiences for Black Americans, started considering the role that her company could play in the historic moment, she had a revelation of sorts: “I realized we were standing on the shoulders of the Black tradition and [thought of] the lyrics of the song about laying our burdens down by the riverside,” Mapp says on a call with mbg. “That’s the moment I really understood that my work was about healing....