Learn how healthy food can help you manage your health, treat common ailments, and even prevent diseases.
You probably know that your health and wellness are directly related to the foods you eat. But did you know that some painful symptoms, chronic conditions, and even life-threatening diseases can be managed, treated, and even cured by changing your diet? Find out more about using food as nature’s medicine — the Health Library archive below contains articles, photo galleries that can help you learn to manage your health with food.
Arthritis
- 7 Best Foods for Arthritis Pain Relief
- 8 Ways to Lower Your Risk of Gout
- A spicy solution for aches and pains
- Arthritis 101: What You Need to Know
- Arthritis Basics
- Different Types of Arthritis
- Dining-Out Tips for Arthritis
- Food Remedies for Arthritis
- Gouty Arthritis Diet
- Home Remedies for Arthritis
- How Food Affects Arthritis
- Inflammatory Foods to Avoid for Rheumatoid Arthritis
- Is Ground Ginger As Beneficial As Fresh Ginger?
- Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis Treatment
- Osteoarthritis Diet: The Best Foods
- Psoriatic Arthritis Diet and Treatment Tips
- Reactive Arthritis Diet and Treatment
- Rheumatoid Arthritis Diet: Foods to Eat
- Septic Arthritis Diet and Treatment
- Spinal Arthritis Diet and Treatment Tips
- The Benefits of Ginger
- The Worst Foods for Arthritis
Celiac Disease
- 5 Lifestyle Tips for Living with Celiac Disease
- 6 Tips for Healthy Eating with Celiac Disease
- Celiac Disease Basics
- Celiac Disease Grocery List
- Clearing Up Gluten Confusion
- Foods to Avoid for Celiac Disease
- Gluten-Free Dieting for Life
- Gluten-Free Dining Out
- Gluten-Free Shopping List—Healthy, Brand Name Picks
- Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity: Does It Exist?
- Q and A: Eating Oats
- Q and A: Reading Labels
Family Health
- 10 Kid-Friendly Breakfast Ideas
- 3 Steps to a Healthy Kid-Friendly Lunchbox
- 5 Foods Your Kids Should Be Eating
- 5 Tips for a Healthy, Happy Family
- A Surprising Trick to Get Kids to Eat More Veggies
- Attention Foodies! 5 Kid-Friendly Field Trips
- Back-to-School Breakfasts Made Easy
- Better Stress Management in Teens Means Better Blood Pressure as Adults
- Chocolate…the Secret to a Healthy Pregnancy?
- Food Cures for the Common Cold
- Healthy Snacks Kids Love!
- How to Avoid Vacation Weight Gain
- Mac & Cheese Muffins Made With Love
- Mistakes Parents Make When Feeding Their Kids
- Moms-to be: Here’s why you should get your Zzz’s now!
- Parents, Break Your Kids of This Unhealthy Habit
- Protect Your Child from Breast Cancer with High-Fiber Diet
- Should Your Child Take Vitamins?
- Tasty Snack-time Swaps
- The 6 Best Breakfasts to Eat Before the SATs
Foods That Improve Memory & Mood | Joy Bauer
- 6 Foods To Boost Memory
- 6 Ways to Start Feeling Better Right Now
- 8 Ways to Boost Your Energy
- Afternoon Brain Drain? Sustain Mental Performance Through Strategic Snacking
- Energizing Snacks to Fight Fatigue
- Even Out Your Mood With Food
- Food Cures to Relieve Stress
- Foods Can Help You Boost Your Memory
- How to Boost Sex Drive with Food
- Turkey-Pepper Roll Ups
Healthy Eating
- 10 Delicious Ways to Eat More Beans
- 10 Healthy Herbs You Should Be Using
- 10 Healthy Resolutions for a JOY Full New Year
- 10 Must-Have Pantry Staples
- 2 Egg-Free Mediterranean Breakfasts
- 2012’s Trendiest Health Foods
- 3 Ways to Get Dinner on the Table Fast
- 4 quick ways to add kale to your diet
- 5 creative ways to enjoy an egg
- 5 Foods to Avoid in Your 50s
- 5 Tips to Build a Healthier Salad
- 5 Ways to Lighten Up Your Favorite Foods
- 6 Slimming BBQ Sides
- 6 Strategies for Mastering the Farmers’ Market
- 6 Surprising Superfoods
- 6 Ways to Outsmart Office Food Obstacles
- 8 Bite-Size Desserts
- 8 Foods to Avoid at All Costs
- 8 Spring Superfoods
- 8 Summer Superfoods You Should Be Eating
- 8 Trendy Proteins You Should Be Eating
- A refreshing way to cut calories
- A simple tip to stop nighttime nibbling
- A spicy solution for aches and pains
- A Surprising Trick to Get Kids to Eat More Veggies
- A tip to keep ice cream portions in check
- Attention, Cocoa Lovers! Get Your Flavanol Fix
- Avoid These Restaurant Red Flags
- Back-to-School Breakfasts Made Easy
- Beat the Heat with These Cooling Foods
- Breakfast and exercise: The best time to eat
- Chocolate…the Secret to a Healthy Pregnancy?
- Clean up your mess and drop a dress size!
- Cut Carbs with 4 Simple Swaps
- Do You Need An Exercise Makeover?
- Energizing, No-Fuss Breakfasts
- Energy Boosting Breakfasts
- Enjoy Summer Parties Without Gaining Weight
- FALL 2015: Crash Course on Healthy College Eats
- Fall Produce With Hidden Healing Powers
- Fall-Flavored Healthy Food Finds
- Fill up on produce without emptying your wallet
- Five Age-Defying Foods for the 50+ Crowd
- Food Remedies on PBS
- Foods for a Good Sex Life
- Game on! Football Fare that Won’t Blow Your Diet
- Go Ahead and Indulge! Diet-Friendly Chocolate Fixes
- Good Fats, Good Life
- Hail to Kale! 10 Ways to Enjoy the Great Green
- Have a Fit Fiesta With 4 Easy Swaps
- Health+Happiness: Episode 4 Recap
- Healthy College Eats: All-Nighter Energizers
- Healthy College Eats: Dining Hall Dos & Don’ts
- Healthy College Eats: Exam Brain-Boosters
- Healthy College Eats: Hangover Helpers
- Healthy College Eats: Midday Munchies
- Healthy College Eats: Morning Meal Plan
- Healthy College Eats: Smart Snacks
- How to (Quickly) Slim Down by New Year’s
- How to Avoid Vacation Weight Gain
- How to eat everything at Thanksgiving and not gain weight
- How to Get More Flavor in Every Meal
- How to kick powerful sugar cravings
- How to make low-carb pizza crust
- Is Coffee Dehydrating?
- Jazz Up Your Chicken Recipes
- Joy Bauer Books
- Joy of LaCroix: HUGE giveaway!
- Jumpstart Your Diet in 2 Simple Steps
- Low-Cal Coffee Hacks
- Mac & Cheese Muffins Made With Love
- My 10 Must-Have Foods for the Fridge
- Night Out, Stomach In
- One-Day Detox Plan
- Outsmart Summer Diet Saboteurs
- Peculiar Produce Picks
- Produce: Why Fresh Isn’t Always Best
- Protect Your Child from Breast Cancer with High-Fiber Diet
- Repeating breakfasts: Good or bad?
- Skimping on Sleep May Lead to “The Munchies”
- Skinny Cinnamon Raisin Bagels
- Slim down your pizza slice
- Spice up your sandwich with these 5 slimming spreads
- Spring Sippers
- Summer Lovin’ with Good Fats
- Support Your Local PBS…and receive my Ultimate Joy Food Collection
- Tasty Ways to Enjoy Nuts and Seeds
- The Best Foods to Eat Before…
- The Best Picks at the Mall Food Court
- The bottom line on egg substitutes
- The easiest way to create healthy meals
- The Juicing Craze: Health or Hype?
- The Simplest Diet Cleanse Ever: Sample Menus
- Three Ways to Beat Weekend Waist-Busters
- Tips and Tricks to Avoid the Freshman Fifteen
- Tips for Guilt-Free Grilling
- Tips for Smart Summer Travel
- Top 10 Foods for the Freezer
- Top 10 Superfoods
- Top Nutrition Tips for Marathon Runners
- Try This Juicy Tenderloin Roast
- Two tricks to suppress appetite
- What Is “Healthy?”
- What Top U.S. Olympians Really Eat
- Why You Can’t Always Trust Food Labels
- Wow Them in White! 6 Pale Power Picks
Healthy Living
- 4 Benefits of Flavored Sparkling Water
- 5 Kosher-for-Passover Recipes
- 5 Simple Swaps That’ll Boost Your Energy
- 5 Strategies to Snag More Shut-Eye
- 5 Health Benefits of Taking a Lunch Break
- 6 Reasons Why Activity Keeps You Young
- 6 Simple Tips to Avoid Holiday Stress
- A refreshing way to cut calories
- A spicy solution for aches and pains
- Age Gracefully with Meditation
- An effective fix for hangovers
- Are Weekends Wrecking Your Diet?
- Check out NBC’s TODAY Show “Diet Cleanse”
- Chocolate…the Secret to a Healthy Pregnancy?
- Clean up your mess and drop a dress size!
- Exercise the Fit Life: Joy Bauer’s Health Library
- Fall into the season with these 5 autumn ingredients
- Finding your Rhythm
- Health + Happiness Recap: Episode 3
- Health + Happiness: Episode 1 Recap
- Health+Happiness Episode 5: Recap
- Joy Bauer’s 10 Favorite Things of 2014
- Joy of LaCroix: HUGE giveaway!
- Kindness: The Solution to Stress?
- Lose Winter Weight Gain
- Moms-to be: Here’s why you should get your Zzz’s now!
- Protect Your Child from Breast Cancer with High-Fiber Diet
- Read This Before You Set Your Resolutions!
- Recipes From Joy Bauer’s Health Library
- Spring Sippers
- The Skinny on 5 Buzzworthy Foods
- Your Inner Skinny: Joy Bauer’s new book helps you find your inner skinny!
High Blood Pressure Diet and Treatment - Joy Bauer
- 3 Ways to Boost Heart Health
- 6 Simple Swaps for Better Blood Pressure
- 8 Foods That Help Lower Blood Pressure
- Better Stress Management in Teens Means Better Blood Pressure as Adults
- Does Chocolate Improve Blood Pressure?
- How to Maintain a Healthy Blood Flow
- Hypertension 101: What is high blood pressure?
- Kosher Salt and Sea Salt
- Loaded Baked Potato
- Salt Substitutes: Are They Safe?
- Sodium Claims on Food Packaging
- Tips For Lowering Salt Intake
High Cholesterol
- 6 Foods That Lower Cholesterol | Joy Bauer
- A Cholesterol-Lowering Diet – Plus Statins
- Control Your Cholesterol: 4 Supplements to consider.
- How to Raise Cholesterol Numbers
- Lower Your Cholesterol: 7 Changes You Can Make Today
- Supplements and Cholesterol
- Using Food to Lower High Cholesterol
- What Is Cholesterol, and How Does Food Affect It?
Holiday
- 10 Slimming Snacks for Holiday Travel
- 10 Tricks to Lighten Up Your Holiday Treats
- 4 Low-Calorie Holiday Drinks
- 8 Slimming Thanksgiving Side Dishes
- 9 Simple Steps to Your Little Black Dress
- Cheers! 2 Fit and Festive Cocktails
- Cheers! 7 Slimmed-Down Holiday Cocktails
- Enjoy Holiday Hoopla Without Gaining a Pound
- Joy Full Eats: Sweet Potato Casserole
- Joy’s Top Five Gifts for a Healthy Holidays
- Post-Party Detox Plan
- Read on: 13 of our favorite books from 2018
- Steer Clear of Holiday Calorie Catastrophes
- Trim Before the Turkey
- Yes! You Can Enjoy the Holiday Season
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
- 6 Tips for Outsmarting IBS
- Common IBS Trigger Foods
- Elimination Diet with Added Fiber
- Extreme Elimination Diet
- Extreme Elimination Diet – No Fiber
- Fiber Supplements for IBS
- How Food Affects IBS
- IBS Basics: What Is IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome)?
- Lactose Intolerance and IBS
- Starting a Low-FODMAP diet: What you need to know
Looking Great
- 5 Best Foods for Healthy Teeth
- 7 Best Foods for Healthy Hair
- 8 Foods for Healthy, Gorgeous Skin
- Can Low Iron Levels Cause Hair Loss?
- Does Calcium Strengthen Nails?
- Eat Your Way to Beautiful Skin
- Hair Basics: How Does Food Affect Hair Health?
- How Food Affects Hair Health
- Look Years Younger With These 4 Foods
- Which Foods Will Stain Your Teeth?
Type 2 Diabetes
- 10 Tips for Managing Diabetes
- 20 Delicious Low-Sugar Snacks
- 3 Simple Swaps to Manage Type 2 Diabetes
- 6 Diabetes-Friendly Meals | Joy Bauer
- 7 Low-Carb Dinner Recipes for Diabetes
- Best Foods for Type 2 Diabetes
- Beware: Complications of Type 2 Diabetes
- Breakfast Ideas for People with Diabetes
- Carb Counting and the Food Exchange System
- Diabetes and Alcohol — Smart Tips to Avoid Blood Sugar Swings
- Diabetes and Coffee
- Diabetes Basics: What Is Type 2 Diabetes?
- Diabetes During Pregnancy: What You Need to Know About Gestational Diabetes
- Diabetic Cake Recipes to Enjoy
- Diagnosed with Prediabetes? Normalize Your Blood Sugar With These Tips
- Easy Diabetic Dessert Recipes
- Easy, Heart-Healthy Dinner Recipes
- Food Cures for Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)
- How Food Affects Type 2 Diabetes
- How to Handle High Blood Sugar
- How to Recognize Prediabetes and Prevent Type 2 Diabetes
- Is Your Child at Risk for Diabetes? Know the Signs
- Top 10 Worst Foods For Diabetes
- What Is Brittle Diabetes…And Are You at Risk?
- What is Diabetic Gastroparesis?
Weight Loss
- 10 Healthy Resolutions for a JOY Full New Year
- 10 Skinny Foods for 2013
- 10 Surprising Fat-Blasting Strategies
- 11 Ways to Rev Your Weight-Loss Engine
- 12 Wholesome Foods to Help You Slim Down Fast
- 3 Ways to Break Through a Weight-Loss Plateau
- 4 Metabolism-Boosting Steps
- 7 Secrets to Losing Weight and Keeping It Off
- 8 Clever Diet Tricks From Weight Loss Superstars
- 9 Simple Steps to Your Little Black Dress
- A Simple Trick to Tame Your Appetite
- A Surprising Calorie-Cutting Trick
- Calculating calories for weight loss
- Cuisinicity
- Cut Carbs with 4 Simple Swaps
- Drop 10 pounds
- Healthy Foods That Pack on the Pounds
- How Can I Shrink My Thighs?
- Is Intermittent Fasting Right for You?
- Lose weight by eating more? Yes!
- One-Day Detox Plan
- Regain Control Over Your Appetite
- Should You Weigh Yourself Every Day?
- Skinny Cinnamon Raisin Bagels
- Sneaky Ways to Burn More Calories
- Spice up your sandwich with these 5 slimming spreads
- Stop the Negative Self-Talk
- Strategies to Overcome Emotional Eating
- Support Your Local PBS…and receive my Ultimate Joy Food Collection
- The Best Diet for Weight Loss
- The best way to weigh
- The Simplest Diet Cleanse Ever
- The Simplest Diet Cleanse Ever: Foods to Choose
- The Simplest Diet Cleanse Ever: Foods to Lose
- The Simplest Diet Cleanse Ever: The Basics
- This Kitchen Gadget Helps Speed Weight Loss
- Top Belly- Slimming Foods
- What’s the Difference Between You and a Supermodel?
What's Hot in Health
- Are “Natural” Sweeteners Good For You?
- Burn Major Calories With Rowing!
- Cashews are IN!
- Feel-Good Teas
- Fruity Products Get a Veggie Boost
- Fruity Products Get a Veggie Boost
- Matcha Green Tea
- Move Over Coconut Water, Hello Maple Water!
- Savory Energy Bars
- Slow Weight Training
- Tasty Nut Butters With Flavorful Mix-ins
- Tone Up With Sandbells
- Trendy Condiment Alert: Flavored Vinegars!
- Turmeric