Nutrition Corner

13 Foods That Lower Cholesterol: Your diet is an important factor in maintaining healthy cholesterol levels.

Feeling Under The Weather? Try These 3 Amazing Liquid Diet Tonics For Quick Recovery: When illness strikes, eating solid food becomes a challenge, but liquid diets can prove to be a lifeline.

Recipe for The Day

Crunchy Apple & Celery Salad Recipe Is a Healthy Fall Side Dish: It's apple season, so you will need new apple recipes to try. We're here to help! The crunch factor of this easy apple and celery salad recipe is ridiculous. And fall is apple season, so what better time to try it?

Lifestyle & Fitness Focus

4 Foods That Fight Back: Immune System Boosters

• Yogurt Aids Gut Health, Which May Positively Affect Immunity: Yogurt is rich in probiotics, the good bacteria that support gut health. And a large proportion of the immune system is actually in the gastrointestinal tract.

• Garlic and Onions Contain Potential Antiviral Properties: Garlic offers protective benefits to your health and immune response. When garlic is crushed or chopped, it produces allicin, which has antiviral and antibacterial properties. Onions have a substance called quercetin, which may help regulate histamine response and contains antiviral properties.

• Nuts and Seeds Bring Vitamin E, Selenium, and Magnesium — All Immunity Fortifiers: For a filling snack that’s also a boon to your immune system, reach for a handful of nuts or seeds. Not only do they have magnesium, but they’re rich in vitamin E, an antioxidant that’s been shown to improve the body’s ability to fight off bacteria and viruses.

• Citrus and Leafy Greens Offer Immune-Supportive Vitamin C: Choose foods that are loaded with this vitamin. This includes oranges, lemons, strawberries, blueberries, tomatoes, broccoli, kale, and bell peppers. To help retain vitamin C in your food, enjoy these foods in raw form when possible. Vitamin C is heat sensitive, so cooking can reduce the amount of this nutrient that your body can take in.

Replace Melatonin With These 3 Popular All-Natural Sleep Aids for Insomnia

• Brew a hot cup of herbal tea: Brewing tea is an ancient practice. Chamomile, valerian root and magnolia tea are all natural remedies for anxiety, stress and insomnia. Drink a cup of one of these herbal teas at least an hour to two hours before bed -- this gives you time to relax, enjoy the tea and use the bathroom before lights off.

• Put a drop of lavender oil on your pillow: One of the more popular household remedies -- essential oils. If tea is not your favorite way to relax before bedtime, floral and herbal fragrances are good ways to aid sleep.

• Drink tart cherry juice: Sour cherry juice from tart cherries can increase melatonin production in those who consume it before bedtime. In the same study, the group who drank the cherry juice spent more time in bed, asleep and achieved higher overall sleep efficiency. This suggests that tart cherry juice has potential to aid insomnia.

Water is Life, Water is Food: 5 Ways To Drink More Water

• Turn it into a friendly game: Team up with a loved one and challenge each other to drink more water. Pick a start date, and keep a digital journal you both have access to and track your progress.

• Keep it on you—and within sight—at all times: Whether it's the water bottle you scored at an office party or the bedazzled one you randomly picked up while shopping, keeping a refillable bottle within sight is key to drinking more.

• Try different types of water: If accessible, try a different water source. Water straight from the tap versus filtered water can taste drastically different. Where you live can influence how water tastes so if you wrote water off many years ago, give your current water source a try.

• Add a little flavor: Not only does infusing water with lemon, limes, and other fruits and veggies add nutritional value to your cup of agua, it adds major flavor. If you really want to step it up add herbs like mint, parsley, or ginger.

• Eat water-rich foods: The water in food counts. Add plenty of high-water foods such as melons, salad greens, tomatoes, and cucumbers to stay both nourished and hydrated.

Forget crunches — 3 best ab wheel rollout variations to chisel rippling core muscles

• Ab Wheel Plank: You don’t need the rollout to see the benefits of the exercise. The plank builds strength in your core, shoulders, arms, chest, lower back, glutes, hamstrings, hip flexors and quads using isometric (static) contraction.

• Ab Wheel Knee Tucks: The plank knee tuck using an ab wheel is one of our top ways to torch core muscles and engage your hip flexors and legs. Be ready to fire up the quads and glutes with this variation.

• Barbell Ab Rollouts: The wider surface area could help people with weaker shoulders find stability and play with arm position, but a loaded barbell is trickier and heavier to navigate than an ab wheel. The move works the same muscle groups — the abs, shoulders, hip flexors, arms, erector spinae (spine stabilizers), transverse abdominis (the deeper belt of core muscles beneath the abs), lats and chest.

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