Carly Weaver

The Mediterranean diet is popular for a reason: it’s an effective and achievable diet that supports heart health and promotes overall balanced nutrients. Based on the main food groups eaten in coastal Mediterranean countries like Spain, France, Greece, and Italy, the diet has proven to be a healthy lifestyle for many here in America. But it doesn’t come without its challenges, and finding Mediterranean diet food and drink [...]

Anyone on the keto diet knows that the lifestyle doesn’t necessarily lend itself to pizza – it’s hard to fit a large hunk of dough into your diet when your goal is to limit your daily carb intake.  While on the keto diet, the objective is to keep the body in a ketogenic state so that you burn energy from your body's fat source rather than carbs. This helps to aid weight loss and comes with other benefits like improved [...]

Although vegan items are becoming more and more prevalent in certain health-conscious areas of the country, you’re still pretty hard-pressed to find vegan-friendly menus at restaurants today – especially at chain restaurants, and especially at pizza chain restaurants. (Let’s be honest, with cheese as one of its star ingredients, pizza is not the most vegan-friendly food). But at those chains that offer plenty of variety and [...]

McDonald’s is loved around the world for its nostalgia-inducing food, with iconic menu items from the Big Mac to the Happy Meal to the Filet-O-Fish. Everyone’s got their McDonald’s order down by now, whether it’s a regular lunch stop, a once-in-a-while treat, or a trusted meal on the road. But as long as the McDonald’s menu is, it’s notoriously not very diet-friendly (which isn’t necessarily surprising coming from the giant [...]

The paleo diet is an ever-popular approach to eating that’s built on the foundational food groups eaten by the first humans many, many years ago. This includes whole, plant-based foods like fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds, as well as animal products like fish, eggs, and lean meats. The idea is to eat the same kinds of foods that were hunted and gathered way back in the Paleolithic Era, and avoid anything that came along [...]

Pizza, regardless of how tasty it is, is without a doubt a gluten-filled creation; it's probably one of the first things to avoid and one of the last things you want to be around if you can’t consume gluten. It’s no secret that “gluten-free” and “pizza” just don’t go together – until they do. Gone are the days of those on a gluten-free diet being deprived of one of their favorite meals, because today more and more [...]