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Elizabeth Kuster
Elizabeth Kuster is an award-winning media executive and content strategist who has transformed the health and wellness content of many major brands, including Hearst, Condé Nast, Turner Broadcasting and The Huffington Post. Author of the popular Simon & Schuster self-help book "Exorcising Your Ex," she began her career as staff writer at "Glamour" magazine and went on to become a founding editor of "CosmoGIRL!" and a deputy editor at "Cosmopolitan" and "Seventeen."
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By Elizabeth Kuster
Crying female student struggling with schoolwork in a classroom.
Do Mentally and Emotionally Draining Activities Burn Calories?
Weight Management
By Elizabeth Kuster
The baking soda remedy involves using bicarbonate of soda to neutralize high blood potassium, aka hyperkalemia.
Have Hyperkalemia? Read This Before Trying a Baking Soda Remedy
Nutrition
By Elizabeth Kuster
Zinc-rich raw oysters with lemon and rosemary on white marble table.
How to Help Your Body Absorb Zinc Better
Nutrition
By Elizabeth Kuster
Portrait of two happy older adults carrying energizing foods
Carbohydrates and Other High-Energy Nutrition for Older Adults
Nutrition
By Elizabeth Kuster
woman drinking milk from a glass in the kitchen
Can You Take a Multivitamin With Milk?
Nutrition
By Elizabeth Kuster
A cup of milk, evaporated milk, buttermilk or drinkable yogurt is a rich source of calcium.
Which Milk Product Is the Best Calcium Source?
Nutrition
By Elizabeth Kuster
Unthawed block of frozen spinach.
How to Cook Frozen Spinach on the Stove or in a Microwave
Nutrition
By Elizabeth Kuster
Turmeric spice powder and supplement pills next to fresh sliced turmeric root.
Turmeric Spice and Curcumin Supplements: Uses and Benefits
Nutrition
By Elizabeth Kuster
Doctor-recommended vitamin B12 delivery methods include injection and sublingual tablets dissolved under the tongue to fight deficiency.
What's the Best B12 Delivery Method: Sublingual or Injection?
Nutrition
By Elizabeth Kuster
Eating a balanced diet of fresh and healthy food prevents overnutrition, undernutrition and malnutrition
Eating a Balanced Diet: Overnutrition vs. Undernutrition
Weight Management
By Elizabeth Kuster
Small bowl of rujak or rojak sauce on a white plate with assorted fruits and vegetables.
5 Dipping Sauces That Make Steamed Vegetables Taste Even Better
Nutrition
By Elizabeth Kuster
close up image of iodine-rich kelp salad in a white bowl
Kelp Safety, Iodine Overdose and Thyroid Health Effects
Nutrition
By Elizabeth Kuster
A single bitter melon gourd with warty skin contains nutrition such as potassium
Bitter Melon Gourd Nutrients: Raw vs. Cooked
Nutrition
By Elizabeth Kuster
A glass shaker with a silver metal cap full of iodized salt, which can help with iodine consumption, on a light green background
Digestion and Absorption of Iodine and Iodide: Know the Facts
Health
By Elizabeth Kuster
older woman wearing headscarf standing in bright kitchen
Meal Plans for Cancer Patients: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner Ideas
Nutrition
By Elizabeth Kuster
Closeup of shish kebab food stick and ear of corn on a grill
How to Cook Shish Kebab on the Grill
Nutrition
By Elizabeth Kuster
Close-up of young, healthy vocalist holding a microphone and singing karaoke with friends.
Healthy Diet Tips for Vocalists
Nutrition
By Elizabeth Kuster
Close-up of carbohydrate-rich ice cream or frozen yogurt with mint and vanilla pods on white textured table.
Can You Eat Ice Cream and Yogurt on a Low-Carb Diet?
Weight Management
By Elizabeth Kuster
Malanga has a high nutritional value and many health benefits.
What Is Malanga, and What Are Its Nutritional Benefits?
Nutrition
By Elizabeth Kuster
Healthy snack of blueberries, yogurt and granola parfait dessert layered in a clear glass.
How to Turn Plain Yogurt into a Tasty, Healthy Breakfast or Snack
Nutrition
By Elizabeth Kuster
The best exercise for a strong heart and lungs is cardio that improves your resting heart rate.
How to Exercise for a Strong Heart and Lungs
Health
By Elizabeth Kuster
Steamed and cooked frozen green edamame soybeans on a plate.
How to Cook and Eat Frozen Edamame
Nutrition
By Elizabeth Kuster
Lentil stew is a good recommendation for meeting your daily folate intake needs.
How Much Folate Do You Need Per Day, and What Is Its Function?
Nutrition
By Elizabeth Kuster
Small red-skin potatoes are commonly roasted with rosemary and garlic.
How to Boil, Roast and Microwave Red-Skin Potatoes
Nutrition
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