Diet & Nutrition Highlights

Adding purple to your plate can do amazing things for your diet. From grapes to eggplant, discover the nutritional power of purple.

In this edition of You've Got, Kathy Freston tells you all about the health benefits and variations of Vegan food.

In this video, registered Dietitian Sonya Kaster describes ways to incorporate healthy choices when eating at a fast food restaurant. This video is designed for adults. This video illustrates strategies, portion control, food safety and healthy items to choose when eating at a fast food restaurant.

To refuel your body after a workout, try drinking a glass of low-fat chocolate milk. This beverage has what most sports drinks lack: Protein, vitamin D and vitamin B.

This energy bar is loaded with real fruit and has no added sugar.

One misconception when losing weight is thinking that the less calories you eat, the better. That is not necessarily true. While you want to follow a reduced calorie diet when trying to lose weight, you want to make sure that you are getting enough to support your bodys' needs and to support any exercise that you are doing. Sometimes if you cut back too much on calories your body actually goes into starvation mode.

Fitness expert John Basedow discuses a few foods that help you burn fat.

Dr. Kent Holtorf explains what human chorionic gonadotropin or HCG is, stating that it is a hormone that women produce while they're pregnant, and is used to increase progesterone for the baby.

Dr. Bowden discusses the dangers related to eating bread, rice and pasta.

Dr. Kent Holtorf describes the symptoms of low thyroid to be fatigue, depression, inability to loose weight, and cold hands and feet, and that these symptoms will not be detected in a standard blood test.

Health and wellness expert Jillian Michaels gives Leslie a health action plan to promote her weight-loss goals. Learn how you can follow it at home!

Dr. Weil explains how vitamin D contributes to a woman's health.

Dr. Kent Holtorf discusses how thyroid is related to your metabolism, stating that thyroid is what initiates metabolism and low thyroid levels can hamper your body metabolism functions.

Endocrinologist Dr. Katje Van Herle explains how hormones influence weight gain, and E.R physician Dr. Travis Stork goes inside an overweight body to demonstrate how obesity affects your health.