Nutrition Corner

Is corn good for you? Health, calories, nutrition explained: Is corn healthy? Yes. It is jam-packed with vitamins and fiber. It is comparable to other carb-dense foods, like brown rice.

15 Homemade Jam Recipes to Make Without Canning: Summer is a time for stocking up on fresh berries, peaches, and other tasty fruits.

Recipe for The Day

This One-Pan Chicken & Cabbage with Rice Is Really Delicious: This one-pan chicken and cabbage recipe is a super-flavorful dish, with rice absorbing all the flavor from the chicken and the broth mixture. The cabbage is perfectly tender, and the char adds a nice color to the dish. To keep the wedges from falling apart, leave the core intact. The chicken crisps up easily when you remove the lid from the pan and let it bake directly under the heat.

Lifestyle & Fitness Focus

4 Signs Your Hair is Healthy

• Shiny and Smooth: If hair looks silky, it's a safe bet that it's healthy too. That shiny—and sought-after—texture is the result of a smooth, flat-lying cuticle. The cuticle—our shingle-shaped outer layer—has the job of protecting a sponge-like shaft beneath and does its best work when its "shingles" are sitting tightly overlapped on top of the cuticle.

• Good Elasticity: When you achieve that gorgeous bouncy style that lasts all day, you have your hair's great elasticity to thank. It's the quality that holds curl and makes all your hairstyle ambitions—voluminous blowouts to tight curls—a possibility. Elasticity is the measure of your hair's strength and having poor elasticity can lead to excess breakage–and frizz.

• Shed A Few Strands Daily: Hair grows in cycles and each follicle has a growth stage that can last from two to seven years.2 After that time, the strand falls out and a new hair grows. For most people with healthy hair, that means that 80-90 percent of their hair is growing at one time and that they can expect to lose up to 125 hairs each day.

• Detangles Easily: The smooth surface of a closed healthy cuticle makes it easier to brush through. When the cuticle is raised and unhealthy, hairs tend to get caught on one another and start to form tangles. The rough texture of the hair's outer layer makes it much more difficult to separate each strand, and when it does separate easily you know your hair is doing well.

3 Ways to Start a Gratitude Journaling Practice

• Consider Why You Appreciate Something: A stream-of-consciousness approach to scribbling everything that you’re thankful for isn’t a bad thing. Although studies have shown that it’s more beneficial to choose one item on your list and write about it in greater detail.

• Write About the One Person You Most Appreciate: Explain how this individual came into your life, his/her role, and what it is about this person you’re most grateful for.

• Write a Letter to Someone: Explain exactly why you appreciate them or their actions and what you’ve learned by their words or example. You don’t have to mail the letter, but you certainly can if you feel inclined.

3 advantages of cherries that you don't want to miss

• The glycemic index of cherries is the lowest of all fruits: What does this mean? The sugar in them is absorbed the slowest, causing the least insulin stimulation, making this fruit the most suitable for those with a tendency towards diabetes.

• Cherries contain a large amount of polyphenols, which reduce arterial calcification and reduce the risk of heart disease: Yes, these are the same ingredients found in red wine - without the side effects of alcohol.

• Cherries contain a relatively high amount of tryptophan: This is the substance from which serotonin is produced, which improves our mood and helps us sleep better. Studies have found that the benefits of a good night's sleep are maximized when eating cherries in the evening.

4 Best Ab Exercises With Weights That'll Work Your Core

• Plank and Rotate: Twisting in a plank position fires up the core and challenges your balance and stability. Holding a weight will work your upper body, too. If you're struggling to keep up your form, ditch the weights and try this move with just your bodyweight.

• High Knees: This cardio move targets your core as well as the rest of your body — your shoulders are sure to feel it after just a few seconds.

• Seated Russian Twist: This classic move is great for targeting your obliques. You can do it with your bodyweight alone or add a dumbbell or medicine ball to increase the challenge.

• Plank Row: This compound exercise is a great choice if you want to engage your core and back muscles at the same time. You'll work your core, challenge your stability, and activate the muscles in your upper back as you row while holding a plank.

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