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Add These High-Magnesium Foods to Your Diet

It’s rare to be deficient in magnesium, but it’s useful to know a few high magnesium foods, just so you can be absolutely sure you’re getting your fill of this PMS-busting, sleep-improving, blood-sugar regulating mineral.

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7 Ways to Turn a Can of Black Beans into a Healthy Dinner

Affordable and versatile, black beans are a nutrient-dense pantry staple. It is always a good idea to have a can — or three — on hand for quick and easy weeknight meals. Turn them into soups and chilis, use them to add heft to salads, and stuff them in everything from peppers to lettuce-wrap tacos.

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Of all the 13 vitamins and minerals essential to our day-to-day diet, calcium ranks high. But milk isn’t the only good source of calcium. While dairy — cheese and yogurt, included — is probably the most well-known way to get your daily dose, here are 3 more foods to consider.

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The Best Products You Can Buy For a Mediterranean Diet

At its most basic, the Mediterranean diet is one that’s full of colorful fruits and vegetables. That’s just the beginning though.

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7 One-Pot Vegetable Dinners for Easier Weeknights

The last—and we mean last—thing you need after tackling your to-do list and making dinner on a typical weekday is a sink full of dishes. We’re right there with you. So we gathered up some favorite easy vegetarian dinners you can make in one vessel, be it baking sheet, skillet, pot, what have you, so you can eat, clean up and get busy relaxing for the rest of the night.

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What’s the Deal?: Bean Pastas

So, you want some noodles, but you have celiac, or you’re gluten intolerant. You could reach for a gluten-free pasta made from corn or rice—but they’re high in carbohydrates, and research shows they can cause blood sugar to leap even higher than wheat-based noodles.

Beat Cravings With These Foods

These foods can curb your appetite for longer stretches and keep the munchies at bay so that you don’t resort to that 990 calorie frozen mocha latte.

Sound Bites: Panera’s Latest News, Plus, Why Beans, Greens and Broccoli Rock

Yet more reasons for eating more broccoli, beans and greens, plus, how Panera Bread has taken a stand against BIg Sugar. Tips for protecting yourself from nutrition-related diseases.

Jersey Tomato and Wax Bean Salad

This simple vegetarian dish began with the idea of a deconstructed pesto: Sliced tomatoes, crisp-tender wax beans and baby arugula take on new meaning when drizzled with excellent olive oil gently infused with young garlic and topped with slivered sweet basil and roasted pine nuts. This pairs well with the Grilled Chicken with Ruby Plum Compote.

Charred Long Beans

This recipe is from Feeding the Fire ($20; Artisan) by Joe Carroll and Nick Fauchald.

Bean growth in Mexico

Try a new legume—Mexican favorite Moro beans.

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