Nutrition Corner

5 Foods to Toss at the First Sign of Spoilage — and 5 You Can Still Use: When in doubt, throw it out? Not always. Here’s a look at what might be lurking in the back of your fridge, and how to make the safest decisions.

The Top 7 Healthiest Nuts to Eat for Health Benefits: The healthiest nuts are packed with a variety of nutrients like unsaturated fat, protein, fiber, and more.

Recipe for The Day

Spaghetti & Spinach with Sun-Dried Tomato Cream Sauce: In this sun-dried tomato pasta recipe, we use the oil from sun-dried tomatoes for the base of the cream sauce.

Lifestyle & Fitness Focus

4 Things You Never Knew About Sweet Cherries

• They may help ward off wrinkles: Sweet cherries are loaded with vitamin C and other antioxidants, which can help tamp down on inflammation and oxidative stress in your body.

• They may help lower your risk of cancer: Sweet cherries contain polyphenols, which are beneficial compounds that you get from certain plant-based foods. There is some research to suggest that these polyphenols may have anti-cancer benefits.

• They might help with blood pressure: Sweet cherries are rich in protective polyphenol compounds, which have been linked to better blood pressure levels.

• They may lower your dementia risk: Sweet cherries contain anthocyanins, a class of polyphenol antioxidants that give them their pretty dark red color. Numerous studies link better brain function and memory skills with higher levels of anthocyanin intake.

4 Upper-Body Stretches to Do After Your Next Strength Training Session

• Upper Trapezius (Neck) Stretch: This move stretches multiple muscles in your neck, including the trapezius muscle, which extends down to your upper back.

• Cross-Body Shoulder Stretch: A must-do on shoulder day, this stretch targets your deltoid muscle.

• Overhead Triceps and Shoulder Stretch: You’ll feel this one primarily in the triceps muscle in your upper arm, but your shoulders and back will get a little bit of a stretch too.

• Reclined Spinal Twist: This one just feels so damn good on your back. Just make sure to move gently and don’t force a deeper twist if it hurts or irritates your lower back.

Sugar Detox: 3 Things That Can Happen

• Helps Manage Weight: Eating too much added sugar causes weight gain. Added sugars have a lot of calories but add no nutrients to your diet, increasing your obesity risk. Cutting out or limiting your added sugar intake reduces how many calories you consume, which is often necessary for weight loss.

• Lower Your Heart Disease Risk: Research has found that sugary drinks might lower your HDL (good) cholesterol and increase your triglycerides, a fat.

• Might Boost Your Intake of Nutrient-Rich Foods: You may make more nutritious choices if you cut out added sugars. For example, swapping an energy bar for a handful of berries supplies you with antioxidants, filling fiber, minerals, and vitamins.

Forget weights — 4 ab exercises you can do with a yoga block

• Yoga Block Oblique Crunches: This variation on ab crunches targets the obliques and abs and engages your chest, upper back and shoulders to hold your position off the mat. It also increases inner thigh activation as you press against the block.

• Yoga Block Single-Leg Kickouts: This is a solid option for targeting your lower abs and the deeper belt of core muscles known as the transverse abdominis. The hip flexors and legs are also active, and the block position will help work your upper body isometrically (without moving), including your arms, shoulders and chest, using the pressing motion similar to a plank.

• Yoga Block Leg Raises: This is a killer move for the hip flexors, legs, abs (including the lower abs) and lower back. Done properly, it shouldn’t cause aggravation to your back, but if you struggle to maintain form, bend your knees. The block raises your hips off the mat, creating a deficit, which requires your legs to work through a greater range of motion than performing the leg raises with your bum against the ground.

• Yoga Block V-Ups: V-ups for high reps are killer, and the advanced sit-up variation takes practice to perfect. The move recruits core and lower body muscles, including the abs, obliques, hip flexors, adductors and quads, improving core stability, balance and coordination.

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