Three Must-Bookmark Nutrition Websites

Wade Souza
Becoming educated about proper health, nutrition, and wellness strategies serves as an empowering source of motivation for personal lifestyle improvement. The following three websites emerge as essential resources for individuals aspiring to comprehensively enhance their quality of life and health, now and in the future.

NutritionData.com - The Nutrition Data website serves as one of the most useful tools for the health-conscious consumer, allowing the user to input his/her daily food consumption and instantly receive comprehensive nutritional analysis. This simple self-assessment tool graphically and numerically provides a variety of useful information, including caloric distribution (fats, proteins, and carbohydrates), vitamin and mineral consumption (and deficiencies), a nutrition density rating, a fullness factor rating, an inflammation rating, and extensive nutritional comparisons to recommended daily values. The site also offers additional educational resources, such as nutrition and health blogs, a free newsletter, recipes, a daily needs calculator, and links to other great websites for personal health and wellness. The flexibility and depth of NutritionData.com makes this a must-bookmark site for individuals looking to become better educated about their nutrition and health, while serving as an invaluable tool to ensure accountability and monitor progress!

MarksDailyApple.com - Call it personal preference, but Mark's Daily Apple serves as the gold-standard for intelligent, comprehensive nutritional conversation. Author of The Primal Blueprint, Mark Sisson, provides in-depth guidance for nutrition, exercise, medicine, and supplemental use. Sisson masterfully provides logical, empirically-based evidence to support a variety of lifestyle changes and wellness strategies, conducive to our genetics, human evolution, and inherent primal needs. Additionally, the quality of discussion in the comments sections and website forums offered by Sisson's dedicated followers remains unrivaled. The list of personal success stories, as influenced by Sisson's efforts, appears endless. Looking for answers for every nutrition question under the sun, check out Mark's Daily Apple immediately!

Epicurious.com - The Epicurious site emerges as one of the most comprehensive food resources on the web, offering an overwhelming abundance of recipes, articles, and multimedia tools to enhance consumers' diets, at the click of a button. In response to the demand for healthy eating, Epicurious offers an arsenal of nutrition-conscious recipes, covering every genre of snack and meal, imaginable. Ultimately, nutritious-eating should not serve as a deprivative practice, as regularly portrayed by society. On the contrary, using sites such as Epicurious.com allows eating healthy to provide bold tastes and flavors, while maximizing our metabolism, energy levels, and enhancing our overall health, function, growth, and repair.

Published by Wade Souza

Souza graduated with distinction from the Exercise Science: Sport Management Program at the University of Kansas. Souza currently resides in Dallas, Texas and is employed as a certified Personal Trainer and...  View profile

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