For most of us, the holiday season is filled with an added emphasis on food. Sharing large meals with family or friends, returning to comfort foods from childhood, or embarking on a decadent baking ...

A centuries-old Japanese philosophy is gaining modern attention for its potential health benefits. Known as hara hachi bu, the practice encourages eating until about 80% full — but its deeper value ...

Forget obsessing over calorie counts and GLP-1 injections. Local nutritionist Karen Louise Scheuner is taking a different approach to body image and health: intuitive eating. Instead of fixating on ...

Importantly, hara hachi bu is not meant to be a restrictive eating approach. It promotes moderation and eating in tune with your body—not "eating less." When viewed as a means of losing weight, it ...

Some of the world’s healthiest and longest-living people follow the practice of “hara hachi bu” — an eating philosophy rooted in moderation. This practice comes from a Japanese Confucian teaching ...

Many of you are all too familiar with this routine: You get home late from work hungry and tired, and you whip up a quick dinner and scarf it down before you've even had time to pick out which Netflix ...

This is one in an occasional series on Iowa influencers who are finding new ways to tell the story of the state through social media. Taylor Grasso went from suffering from an eating disorder where ...