By Kelly Kilpatrick

When you’ve got a busy schedule, healthy eating can seem more like a luxury than a necessity, like it is. To help you stay on track at work, during travel and even on the weekends, we’ve researched and discovered these 100 web tools. You’ll be able to bookmark calorie calculators, instantly check portion sizes and nutrition information, connect with dieters and healthy eaters through social media sites, research recipes, and plenty more.

Calculators

Here you can figure out how many calories you need to eat each day, evaluate how many calories are hiding in your favorite restaurant meals and more.

1. Food Calories and Nutrition Calculator: Select grocery items, ethnic specialties and restaurant items to figure out your calorie intake.
2. MetaboCalc v1.0: Figure out how many calories you burn each day using this calculator.
3. Calorie Calculator: This calculator shows you how many calories you burn during daily activities and during workouts.
4. Calories Burned Calculator: Here you can calculate the number of calories burned during exercises like walking, running and biking. You’ll also find out your BMR and BMI.
5. Weight Loss Calculator: Learn about calorie intake and calorie burn with this tool, which also helps you set up weight loss goals.
6. Diet: Use this tool to calculate BMI, your healthy weight, daily caloric requirement, daily protein, carbohydrate, fat and iron requirements, target heart rate and more.
7. UMMS Health Calculators: The University of Maryland Medical Center’s calculators measure waist-hip ratio, calories burned, diabetes, BMI, fat intake, fiber and more.
8. Calorie Calculator: Figure out how many calories you burn during activities like gardening and raking, shoveling snow and playing cards.
9. Quiz: Are You Getting Enough Protein?: Let this quiz help you determine whether or not you need to add more protein to your diet.
10. Calorie Needs: Quickly calculate how many calories your body needs on a daily basis.

Goal-Setting Tools

Use these online tools to help you stay on track with your healthy eating goals.

11. Ideal Body Weight: If your new diet is supposed to get you down to a certain weight, first figure out what your ideal weight is by using this tool.
12. Free Diet and Weight Loss Journal: This free food and fitness tracker can help you organize your healthy eating goals.
13. Online Diet and Exercise Journal: This website features community forums and free space for you to record your diet goals.
14. The Fat Test: This quiz will help you learn more about good fats vs. bad fats, which foods to cut out of your diet and which to introduce, and be more proactive about goal setting.
15. Standard Weight Charts: Understand your frame size, muscle weight and healthy weight here.
16. National Body Challenge: Discovery Health’s National Body Challenge encourages individuals to exercise and start eating more healthy foods. Register to access menu planners and other resources.
17. Diet Tools: This collection of tools can help you stay on track until you meet your goals.
18. iFitOne: This software program " helps make tracking your diet, fitness and weight loss simple and fun."
19. TeenBodyBuilding: While this program is marketed towards body builders, it offers great goal-tracking tools, workout tips and more.
20. Joe’s Goals: This easy-to-use goal tracker helps you organize work outs, home prepared meals and restaurant trips.

Calendars and Organization

The following list includes diet diaries and other tools that will keep you, your menu ideas and your calorie counts organized.

21. Diet Planning: Access a diet diary and other helpful planners here.
22. StartYourDiet.com: Register to access weight tracking tools, a meal planning tool, diet diary and more.
23. Menu Planner: Organize your daily meals by calories, food items, portion, and total fat and carbohydrates.
24. Daily Food and Activity Diary: Stay organized with this tool, which helps you record your hunger levels, motivation, serving sizes and more.
25. NutritionData: "Know what you eat" by researching food and nutrition data on this site, which also lets you analyze recipes and calculate your BMI.
26. NutriDiary: Organize your foods, meals and more on this site.
27. My Food Diary: Access an exercise log, food and ingredient tracker and more.
28. My Net Diary: This attractive, streamlined food log helps you achieve "safe, steady, long-term weight loss."
29. Weight by Date: This tool can help Windows users track weight loss, keep a food journal and more.
30. My Pyramid Tracker: Evaluate your food intake and exercise with this tool.

Networks and Social Media

Join other healthy eaters and dieters through these sites, which also offer recipe tips and diet advice.

31. Food Count: Members in this network have access to 30,000 foods and nutrition information, diet analysis tools and more.
32. DietGuild: DietGuild is designed to organize and motivate individuals who want to lose weight and eat more healthy foods. You’ll access nutrition tables, public diaries, and resources like the food pyramid and an articles database.
33. The Daily Plate: Those who want to be super organized about their eating habits can turn to this site, which features a forum, groups, personal profile and more.
34. NutriCoach: Create your own personal page on this site, connect with other users, watch videos and access great diet tools and nutrition information.
35. Peer Trainer: Join this network to find buddies who will hold you accountable and keep you on track with your fitness and eating plan.
36. SparkPeople: Here you can take advantage of community features, motivation tools and health tips. You can even join and create SparkTeams to stay on track.
37. My Fitness Pal: Get tips from other community members, read articles and learn about healthy foods and snacks on this network.
38. Gyminee: Gyminee is a workout and food tracker that’s also a social media network.
39. fitsugar: Part of the popular "sugar" network, fitsugar is a network that features a blog with celebrity diet news, a celebrity fitness corner, community for sharing tips and food information, and more.
40. 3 Fat Chicks on a Diet Weight Loss Community: Visit these forums to learn about goal setting, diet plans and more.

Articles and Guides

Check out these articles and resources that can help you understand different diets, types of foods, and eating attitudes.

41. How to Read Food Labels and Nutrition Facts: Learn what you should be looking for on food labels.
42. Are You a Healthy Cook?: Give your cooking style a realistic evaluation with this quiz.
43. Eating Disorders and Emotional Eating Test: Make sure you’re not overcompensating with food for some emotional or mental problem.
44. How do I shop for healthy foods for my diet?: This article can help you stay focused and motivated at the grocery store.
45. Easing Into a Healthy Diet: If you love junk food, try the suggestions offered in this guide to help you get used to healthier eating.
46. 16 Ways to Eat Healthy While Keeping it Cheap: Eating healthy doesn’t have to be expensive. Learn how to keep costs down here.
47. Eat a Nutritious Diet: HealthierUS.gov provides this resource full of healthy foods, a list of foods to limit and other articles.
48. 12 Tips for Eating More Veggies: Veggie Chic’s tips include creating a salad habit, veg up your sandwich and top pasta with tomato-based sauces.
49. Fresh Fruits and Vegetables, By the Month: Bookmark this guide so you’ll always know which fruits and veggies are in season, saving you money and inspiring you to eat healthier.
50. Top Ten Wellness Tips for Eating More Vegetables and Fruit: Here you’ll learn new ways to add vegetables and fruit to your diet.

Recipes and Online Cookbooks

Head to these resources for lots of recipes and meal or snack ideas that are good for you.

51. Diabetes Meal Plan Recipes: From spring rolls and shrimp to Southwestern potato skins to avocado dip, find out how healthy eating is also delicious.
52. Healthy Recipes: Discovery Health provides lots of healthy recipes for kids, breakfast lovers, the holidays and more.
53. FoodFit: Visit this site often to get all kinds of recipes, organized by most popular, low-fat, low in sugar, vegetarian, quick meals and more.
54. Healthy Cooking: From Grandma’s Slow Cooker Vegetarian Chili to Morning Glory Muffins, this section of AllRecipes.com is devoted to delicious healthy recipes.
55. Healthy Recipes: These recipes come from the MayoClinic, so you know they’re good for you.
56. Better Recipes: Healthy Recipes: Find healthy snacks, desserts, poultry dishes, vegetarian recipes, side dishes, breads, meat and fish ideas.
57. EatingWell.com: Here you can get diet and nutrition tips, as well as healthy recipes that are easy to whip up.
58. Delicious Decisions: The American Heart Association’s cookbook allows you to do a recipe quick find and find heart-healthy ingredient substitutions.
59. WeightWatchers Food and Recipes: Find recipes that adhere to WeightWatchers here.
60. Over 100 Quick and Easy Healthy Foods: Try out recipes for foods like Santa Fe eggs, ginger yogurt with fruit, festive fruit salad, zucchini bisque and more.

Inspiration and Support

When you need a little extra motivation, use these sites and tools to keep you going.

61. Healthy Weight Forum: Access inspirational quotes, read diet reviews and more on this forum.
62. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Chocolate is Not the Enemy: Beliefnet’s Health page features this story to help dieters keep their perspective.
63. diettalk.com: This network of dieters and healthy eaters supports each other, because "desire, dedication, determination and discipline = success."
64. Weekend Diet Traps: If you’re known to binge every weekend, use this guide to help you curb your cravings.
65. Low Carb Friends: Turn to this forum for support groups and recipe ideas.
66. Low Carb Eating: This site "provides support for healthy, sustainable low-carb living — via community, education, and resources."
67. What Did You Eat Today?: Refer to this thread on myjellybean.com for yummy but healthy food ideas and snacks.
68. The Seven Habits of Successful Healthy Eating: Dietician Lara Rondinelli urges you to "make healthy eating a priority" and forget about making up excuses.
69. Small Step: This government program inspires adults, seniors and teenagers to eat more healthy foods and have a healthier body image, one step at a time.
70. BuddySlim: Connect with other weight loss buddies over this network, where over 429,000 lbs. have been dropped by members.

Trying New Diets

Here you can research different types of diets that inspire healthy eating, including the raw food diet, veganism, and low-carb diets.

71. South Beach Diet: Get your diet profile for free on this site.
72. Healthy Foods Instead of a Diet: Consider introducing new foods into your menus instead of jumping on the bandwagon of a fad diet that could actually be unhealthy.
73. Veganism in a Nutshell: Learn all about veganism and diet ideas here.
74. High Protein Diets: The American Heart Association goes over high protein diets here.
75. Weight Loss: Reducing Dietary Fat: Learn about calories and sources of dietary fat here.
76. Raw Food Chat: This network will connect you to those who adhere to the raw food diet. Registering will also give you access to articles and recipes.
77. Every Diet: Get the lowdown on diets like Atkins, genotype diet, high protein dies and more on this site.
78. Popular Diets Versus Dietary Guidelines: This article explores what kind of diets and eating regimes are best.
79. Tips for Sugar-Free Cooking and Eating: Find out what foods are good to eat and which ones are off limits in a sugar-free diet.
80. Low Carb Diet: Get recipes, facts about the low-carb diet and more on this list.

Understanding Food and Nutrition

From the food pyramid to fiber charts, these tools will teach you about food and nutrition.

81. Fiber Chart: Here you’ll figure out what kinds of foods–and how much–equals the right kind of fiber.
82. The Food Pyramid: Refresh your understanding of the food pyramid and how many servings of each food group you need.
83. Low Carb Diet Tools: Discover how many carbs are in dairy products, vegetables, beef and more.
84. Exploring the USDA Food Pyramid: This intensive look at the food pyramid will help you understand your own nutritional goals better.
85. Fast Food Explorer: Find out just how many calories and fat are in popular meals at KFC, Dairy Queen, Taco Bell, Wendy’s and other fast food spots.
86. Calcium Assessment: Learn how much calcium you need in this quiz, which evaluates your intake and knowledge about calcium.
87. DietFacts: Get nutrition data for foods when you search by brand and restaurant.
88. Calorie King: Find out the calorie count in foods at restaurants like Chili’s and at retailers like Costco. You can also get healthy recipes and read articles about better eating.
89. Nutri-Facts.com: Instantly get nutrition information for nearly 6,000 different foods, including sausage, baby food items and even different cooking spices.
90. Antioxidants food chart: This chart shows you which foods are richest in antioxidants, which are important for healthy living, good skin, fighting cancer and more.

Portion Control

Understanding portion control is a huge part of healthy eating. Let these tools guide you when you start spooning out dessert.

91. Look at Three Hundred Calories: Understand portion size better when you can visualize what 300 calories is.
92. Portion Control: Here you’ll find tips for measuring out portions, as well as figuring out drink serving sizes and snacks.
93. Meals Matter: This fantastic tool helps you plan out meals for every day of the week, and you can also read nutrition articles, take quizzes and find yummy recipes.
94. Food Portion Sizes: This illustrated guide can help you determine the real portion sizes for meat, apples, ice cream and more.
95. Quick Guide to Food Portions: Here’s another guide that will help you better understand what food portions really mean.
96. French lessons: Eat petite, be petite: MSNBC’s article explores how simply downsizing at the dinner table can help you lose weight.
97. Understanding Portion Control: This guide explores the trouble Americans have with portion control and offers tips for eating light, even in restaurants.
98. How to Avoid Portion Size Pitfalls to Help Manage Your Weight: Here you’ll get advice for managing serving sizes when you eat at home, when you eat in front of the TV, and when you eat out of the package.
99. Portion Distortion: 5 Easy Ways to Downsize Your Servings: Tips here include trimming your trigger foods and to "create your own after-meal ritual."
100. Nutri Diet Tracker: This system frees you from the stress and frustration of counting calories by organizing your diet with special cards.

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By Alisa Miller

Blogging opens up a wide community for both the writers and the readers. Blogging about women’s health bonds that community through shared experiences. The following blogs touch on several aspects of women’s health issues ranging from exercise to infertility to life after 40. Check out what these women have to share with you in the blogs listed below.

Nutrition and Special Diets

Touching on healthy ways of eating or special diets such as for those who can’t eat gluten or choose to remove unhealthy ingredients from their diet, the following blogs will inform you about nutritious eating.

1. Healthy Nutrition Hints and More…. Read about food and nutrition in this blog that highlights food in the news with an emphasis on organics.
2. Gastro Girl: All Things Digestive. This woman takes a look at food news and comments on it in her blog.
3. Foodtherapy™. This blog discusses how food, and specifically the kind of food you eat, affects your health and life.
4. Feed the Soul Nutrition Blog. With posts ranging from fresh vegetables to eating healthy on a tight budget, this blog will help you find a way to eat more healthily.
5. Fear and Loathing in the Kitchen. With experience on various types of health diets including gluten and dairy-free, this blogger offers suggestions, news, and more on how eating wholesome food can help you lose weight as well as allow you to enjoy food and yourself.
6. Foodielicious. Blogging about fresh produce and the benefits of cooking and eating this way, this woman will leave your mouth watering.
7. Grow. Food. Love. This woman blogs about gardening and the food she prepares as a form of mental health for herself and nutritional health for her readers.
8. A Gluten Free Guide. Written by a woman with Celiac disease, this blog offers recipes, suggestions for restaurants, and more for those eating gluten-free. She includes some great photos, too.
9. A Life Less Sweet. This woman blogs about her family’s experience following a diet without high fructose corn syrup and includes recommendations for food as well as news on health issues and high fructose corn syrup.
10. Almost Vegetarian. Follow along with this woman as she chronicles her adventures of eating healthy and mostly vegetarian–and taking her husband along for the ride.
11. Bueller’s Kitchen. This blog highlights raw/living food as the woman who writes it shares her experience of overcoming health issues by following this way of eating.

Exercise

From yoga to getting fit through exercise, these blogs will guide you to better health.

12. Yoga Journey/Yoga for Health and Joy in Life. Get everything yoga here from poses to news to help with specific health issues.
13. Athleta Chi. With a focus on athletics and adventure, this blog serves as an inspiration for women on the go.
14. Fit Bottomed Girls. These two women blog about fitness on this fun blog.
15. A Dumbbell in a Home Gym. This woman blogs about incorporating exercise into her life with a goal to weight loss and better physical health.
16. Every Gym’s Nightmare. Written by a woman who is a fitness trainer and ex-bulimic, this blog will help you find healthy ways to care for your body through exercise.
17. Fitness Cure. Heavy on the motivation, this blogger writes about staying fit through exercise. She recently disclosed that she is pregnant, so look for more posts on staying fit during pregnancy.
18. Food, Fitness, Fashion. This blog focuses heavily on fitness through exercise and includes posts on such activities as yoga and belly dancing. Looking fashionably fit also finds its place here.
19. Catapult Fitness. Focusing on fitness and nutrition, this blog strives to help you lead a healthier life.
20. Look, a fitness blog!. While this woman blogs about maintaining her weight goal with healthy eating and exercise, there is a strong emphasis on exercise, especially running, since she has begun training for a 5k race.
21. A Marathon Leap. Follow this woman’s experience with running as she begins training and running in marathons as a "non-runner."

Infertility

For women struggling with infertility, the road can be long and difficult. Sharing these women’s experiences can make dealing with it all a little more bearable.

22. living a new life with infertility. This blog about the trials and tribulations of infertility also focuses on life and knitting; wonderful metaphors for the experience of infertility.
23. Baby or Bust. Follow the adventures of Brandi and Shelton as they raise money for their In Vitro procedure to help them start a family.
24. Jenny from the Infertility Block. This step mom goes on a journey for a baby and writes about her infertility and fertility treatments.
25. Busted Babymaker. This woman writes about her infertility and loss of 23 week twins.
26. babyfruit: the miscarriage blog and motherhood diaries. Started while this woman was experiencing miscarriages, gather inspiration from this blog as the writer moves through to pregnancy and motherhood.
27. Fertility Musing, Questions & Answers and News. This blog is written by a mother of six who experienced infertility and finally achieved her dreams of a family through fertility treatments.
28. Infertility Drama. This woman blogs about her infertility, fertility treatment, pregnancy losses, and her current pregnancy on this blog.
29. Coming2Terms. Follow the globetrotting exploits of this woman as she lives the life of infertility "in a fertile world."
30. Lost and Found and Connections Abound. This is the ultimate blog for those dealing with infertility. This blog keeps those active in the infertility blog world connected and in the know with what is happening on the various blogs.

Pregnancy

Pregnancy is an exciting time for most women and can also be full of unknowns. Learn from these women who share what they went through in their blogs.

31. Notes from the Nursery. This blog offers the latest news and information on pregnancy as well as baby products brought to you by HealthyWomen.org.
32. Kristie McNealy, MD. Written by a physician, this blog offers news and updates on women’s health, pregnancy, childbirth, and child wellness.
33. Let’s Talk Babies. This blog touches on the early signs of pregnancy to parenting tips and everything in between.
34. The Fun Times Guide to Pregnancy. This blog touches on all sorts of helpful topics such as what not to buy for your nursery, fun online pregnancy tools, and interesting pregnancy gadgets.
35. Day By Day Pregnancy. This blog offers the basics on pregnancy with daily updates.
36. Mission: Impossible (or adventures in infertility, pregnancy…parenting?). Title of this blog says it all, except that the blogger just gave birth to twins, so the parenting part is about to kick in.
37. Barely Pregnant. Follow the second pregnancy of this woman who has gone through infertility, fertility treatments, and loss during pregnancy.
38. Child-bearing Hips. Read this woman’s blog as she chronicles her pregnancy journey.
39. Motherhood Uncensored. This mother of two with one on the way writes an entertaining and popular blog.

Childbirth and Breastfeeding

The curiosity and feeling of going through the unknown doesn’t end after your pregnancy. These blogs discuss childbirth and breastfeeding.

40. Have a Natural Childbirth. This blog includes amazing natural birth stories, posts by midwives and doulas, and more.
41. Natural Childbirth for the "Hip Chick". This experience mama talks about childbirth and the newborn on this blog.
42. Birth Ecology Project. Dedicated to gentle birth, midwives, doulas, and sustainable living, the posts on this blog will uplift and inspire you.
43. Black Breastfeeding Blog. For black women who are breastfeed or expect to in the future, this blog offers information as well as the history of breastfeeding.
44. The Lactivist. Read about breastfeeding, parenting, and more at this blog.
45. BreastfeedingMums Blog. Out of the U.K., this blogger writes about breastfeeding, health, and nutrition.
46. Mama Knows Breast. Learn about breastfeeding topics, get the latest in the news about breastfeeding, and learn about other breastfeeding blogs at this woman’s blog.
47. The Beautiful Letdown. This mom writes about breastfeeding–and tandem nursing in particular.
48. Breastfeeding123. Get tips, news, and support on breastfeeding from this experienced mother of three and breastfeeding counselor.

Weight Loss

These women share their ups and downs as they deal with their weight loss experiences and blog about it.

49. Alycat’s Claws My WW Journey. This woman posts about her experiences with WeightWatchers and weight loss in general.
50. Ranaesheart Weight Loss Blog. This woman lost 143 lbs. in a healthful way and now blogs to share how you can lose weight and maintain your health.
51. The Amazing Adventures of Diet Girl. Get recipes, fitness, inspiration and more from this blogger who lost over 175 lbs. and continues her healthy lifestyle.
52. DietDiva. Follow this woman’s diet journey as she tries to lose weight while trying to eat less prepackaged food and go a more natural route.
53. Angry Fat Girlz. This collaborative blog written by six women exploring the world of weight loss and living life with a few extra pounds.
54. Do you have an Extra Large in this?. Follow the Marshmallow as she chronicles her weight loss adventures of eating, exercise, and online support.
55. Fat Girl Camp. This blog offers the ups and downs of life with fun side trips to pups, politics, and more.
56. Half of Me. Almost 200 lbs. lighter and still keeping it off, this blogger offers hope and support to those struggling with weight loss.
57. lose the buddha. Combining healthy eating and exercise with living a better life, this blogger writes about her weight loss experiences.
58. The Shrinking Knitter. With topics hitting on weight loss, knitting, and politics, you’ll stay entertained and informed with this blog.

Health Challenges

From breast cancer to chronic pain to migraines, these blogs provide knowledge and support on a wide variety of women’s health issues.

59. Keep Working, Girlfriend. This blog offers support to working women dealing with chronic illness–specifically autoimmune diseases.
60. Beating Breast Cancer. Written by a husband and wife team–he’s a doctor and she’s a nurse–who went through her diagnosis of breast cancer in 2006, this blog offers tons of information and medical news.
61. Bomb in My Belly. This young woman writes about life and cancer as she chronicles her experiences with ovarian cancer and her mother’s breast cancer.
62. A Medical Mystery. Written by a young woman who lives with Multiple Hereditary Exotoses, this blog offers an insightful view on living with a lifelong illness and still living life.
63. Buoy for Perinatal Blues & Beyond. This blog is a wonderful source of support for women suffering from PPD and their families.
64. The Greatest Gift Foundation’s Blog. This blog is about helping find solutions for health issues by offering support to living organ donors.
65. Chronic Pain Today. Written by someone suffering with chronic pain to offer support and solutions to other, this blog offers everything from clinical trials to freebies.
66. ChronicBabe.com. Offering support to younger women who suffer from chronic illnesses, this blog is upbeat, supportive, and fun.
67. Food Allergy Buzz. Find the latest news and research on food allergies with this woman’s blog.
68. Free my Brain from Migraine Pain. From the silly to the spiritual, this blog offers support and resources to those suffering from migraines.

Fit and Healthy over Forty

Become inspired by these women who don’t let age define their lifestyle as they lead active and fulfilling lives.

69. Fit and Fabulous at Forty the natural way. Follow along as this forty-something woman keeps herself fit and healthy through good eating, physical activity and more.
70. Fabulously 40 & Beyond. This collaborative blog offers inspiration for women over forty to begin living for themselves and find their happiness.
71. A Greener Tea. Get recipes, motivation, inspiration and more on this blog devoted to supporting healthy and strong women over 35.
72. Bikinis and Bifocals. This blog offers a positive and empowering look at women with articles ranging from menopause to inspirational women.
73. Leona Gets Fit. Follow the journey of this 41 year-old mom as she loses weight and gets fit.
74. Fab Fit and 40. This woman is chronicling her goal of losing 50 lbs. in one year to honor her turning 40 on the goal date.
75. Fabulous @ 50. Similar to the previous blog, this woman has given herself a goal of losing 200 lbs. prior to her 50th birthday and has already lost almost 63 lbs.
76. Growing Older, Sexier, and Skinnier. This self-described post-menopausal woman blogs her way through weight loss and feeling good about her life as she ages.
77. Flashfree. As the subtitle reads, this blog is "not your mama’s menopause" and offers great solutions and news on the latest in menopause research.
78. Grow Older Better. This woman blogs on "older" topics such as active 90 year-olds, exercise and aging, and medical care for retired folks.

Physical Well-Being

All of these blogs focus on how women can become physically healthier with better living, exercise, nutrition, and more.

79. The WELLalarm. These three women post about such topics as eating out, healthy sun screen, and yoga with an emphasis on staying physically well.
80. Fitness-Health-Nutrition. Written by a mom, this blog looks at wellness through better nutrition and fitness with an emphasis on both women and children.
81. Catherine Morgan’s Blog at BlogHer. Catherine posts on a variety of health topics including how the high price of gasoline impacts health, dieting and vacation, and recent food-borne illness outbreaks.
82. Active Women. This collaborative blog celebrates women and their active lifestyles with an emphasis on globe-trotting adventures.
83. RealSelf.com. This blog brings the latest news and information from the world of beauty, skin care, and wellness from real people, not advertisers.
84. Wellness Bites. Find the latest news and research in all natural health, wellness, and beauty with this blog.
85. Balanced Health and Nutrition. Get the latest news, and a bit of opinion, on healthy eating, exercise, and living.
86. Eve’s Health & Fitness. Find exercise, nutrition, and diet information on this blog designed to help you become healthier.
87. Fit and Healthy in the Valley. Living in Hollywood surrounded by so many living an unhealthy lifestyle, this blogger stands out from her peers as a woman trying to achieve well-being through healthy living.
88. The Active Life. Follow this blog for posts inspiring women and their children to stay active, fit, and healthy.
89. Fit for Adventure. Follow this woman’s progress as she gets fit so she can enjoy the kind of life she wants to live full of outdoor adventures.
90. Fit on a Budget. Who couldn’t love a blog that incorporates fitness, nutrition, and freebie (or at least cheapies)?

Mental Well-Being

Staying healthy mentally is as important as physical health and these women’s blogs offer tips and inspiration to do just that.

91. BeThree. Read this blog from the hip site that helps you find the best balance between body, mind, and soul.
92. Rituals to Invite Balance and Well-being. This blog is a compilation of reader-submitted rituals that help maintain their well being. Feel free to add your own to the blog.
93. A Highly Sensitive Woman’s New Perspective on Mental Illness. This woman blogs about her journey to mental health including her experience with medications.
94. A Woman’s Guide to Saner Living. Follow this blog for tips and inspiration to help you live a more fulfilling life through a shift in perspective and thoughtful choices.
95. Sally Huss–Addicted to Happiness. This inspirational blog offers reminders on the beauty of life and how to stay in your happiness zone.
96. Are You "Eating with Your Anorexic?". Written by a mom who is working to dispel myths and teach families how to overcome eating disorders, this author "thinks parents deserve to know that EDs are brain disorders and that parents really can be part of the solution."
97. BwhoUR. Be inspired by the posts of this woman who went from "life in the Fast Lane" to life on a cattle farm in Texas.
98. Beach Walks with Rox. Join Roxanne and her dog for fun and inspiration on this video blog as they take daily walks on the beach in Hawaii.
99. Becoming Your StellarSelf. Become inspired at finding the best you with this blog that focuses on improving your quality of life through better living.
100. Between Us Girls. Find life lessons to help you grow into the person you seek to be.

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By Laura Milligan

Even if you’re not on a weight loss program, your body craves fresh, healthy food. At the same time, you’re probably trying to balance out a sensible diet with good taste. These 100 food blogs are maintained by writers who understand that making good meals means incorporating flavor as well as healthy ingredients. This list has something for everybody, from hardcore dieters to gluten-free eaters to natural and organic foodies.

Diet Specific

Read this list to find blogs for the South Beach diet and other specific regimens.

1. Kalyn’s Kitchen: Kalyn posts recipes that follow the South Beach diet in this colorful blog full of photos.
2. Iateapiet.net: Here, you’ll find healthy "diet" food reviews and product information, from the Tropicana Strawberry and Banana Fruit Smoothie to Lean Cuisine meals to high fiber diets.
3. The Zone Diet Plan Blog: Though this blog is no longer active, it contains a lot of statistics and specific information about how eating according to The Zone Diet helps you lose weight.

Yummy Recipes

On these blogs, you’ll find scrumptious recipes for healthy snacks and sensible meals.

4. Diet Recipes Blog: All the recipes on this blog are for meals and snacks under 200 calories.
5. Food Dosa Recipe: Find quick recipes for healthy meals here.
6. Healthy Recipes: Browse through the archives to get recipes for for blueberries, meals packed with fiber, and even leftover Thanksgiving turkey.
7. Diet Pulpit: This food and diet blog has tons of recipes for healthy eating.
8. Food View Blog: Discover three years’ worth of yummy light and healthy recipes on this blog, from breakfast, dessert, dinner and more.
9. Healthy Eating: Recent recipes on this site include summer salads and inventive recipes that introduce avocado into your diet.
10. Healthy Menu Mailer: From winter vegetable soup to healthy Halloween treats, you’ll find health food recipes for every occasion here.

Healthy Snacking

Instead of reaching for candy or chips, stock your desk or your refrigerator with healthy snacks like these.

11. The Healthy Snacks Blog: Recent healthy snack ideas include honey wheat pretzel sticks and cottage cheese, pineapples and strawberries. You’ll also find product reviews of popular snacks.
12. Healthy Snack Box: This blog teaches readers to "cook with fruit and vegetables to make tasty, healthy and cheap meals" and snacks.
13. Fruit Species: This blog is all about fruit, a smart and healthy snacking option.
14. Really Useful Fitness Blog: Get ideas for healthy snacks that complement your fitness plan here.
15. Healthy Diet Snacks Blog: This new blog has low-calorie snack ideas that are still yummy.
16. Vital Juice Daily: This resource is packed with great ideas for being healthy all day everyday.
17. The Office Diet: If you’re known to snack all through your work day, read this blog for healthy snack ideas and motivation to stick to your diet.
18. Healthy Snacks for Kids: Though this blog focuses on kid-friendly foods, healthy eaters of any age will have fun reading about the importance of healthy snacking and finding unique recipes.
19. The Chocoholic Health Blog: If you reach for the chocolate every time you want a snack, read this blog to learn about satisfying but healthy alternatives.

Vegetarian and Vegan

Those on a vegetarian or vegan diet will love these blogs, full of recipes, photos and tips for smart shopping.

20. Fat Free Vegan Kitchen: Go through the recipe index to discover meals like vegan omelets, crustless tofu quiches, enchilada casserole and even macaroni and cheese.
21. The Great Big Vegetable Challenge: This mother and her son work their way through trying all kinds of vegetables and vegetable recipes from A to Z.
22. Tinned Tomatoes: Tinned Tomatoes is maintained by a Scottish blogger and features vegetarian recipes and photos for meals like Balsamic Beetroot & Chickpea Salad with Mint.
23. A Veggie Venture: Find recipes for vegetarian meals like warm German potato salad, and feta-stuffed zucchini. You can search by vegetable, the author’s favorites, weight watchers and low-carb meals.
24. Veggie Meal Plans: From chocolate sesame cookies to spinach and artichoke filo pastries, this vegetarian food blog has tons of great recipes.
25. Savvy Vegetarian Blog: On this blog, find "news and opinion on vegetarian diet and nutrition, vegetarian lifestyle, green living, and environment."
26. Veg Cooking: From nondairy ice cream to pineapple curry, this blog keeps vegetarian cooking fun and interesting.
27. Andrea’s Easy Vegan Cooking Blog: Finding vegan recipes and ingredients is easy when you turn to Andrea’s blog for ideas.
28. Eat’n Veg’n: Find Get recipes and vegan shopping tips on this photo-packed blog.
29. Day to Day Vegan: Read about this family’s attempts to eat vegan for every meal.

Gourmet Meals and Blogs from Chefs

Eating right doesn’t mean that you have to sacrifice gourmet meals. These chefs show you how to get the best of both worlds.

30. Whole Gourmet: This natural foods blog is all about cooking gourmet meals and sharing grocery shopping tips.
31. Health Chef Alex: Recent posts on this blog include "Viva Las Vegan!" and "Healthy Travels in London," as Chef Alex urges you to "eat your veggies!"
32. Skinny Chef: Chef Jennifer Iserloh believes that you can trust a skinny chef, and on her blog, she shares recipes, webcasts and healthy living tips.
33. Feel Good Eats: This blog is written by a chef and includes recipes that use natural, local and/or seasonal ingredients.
34. 7 Minute Chef: Inspired by the book 7 Minute Chef: Simple Tools for a Lifetime of Health, this blog features posts about raw and vegan diets, recipes for unique and delicious salads, and product reviews of diet books, kitchen appliances and more.

Raw Food and Macrobiotic Diet

Learn about raw and macrobiotic diet lifestyles in these blogs, which also share recipes and reviews of food products.

35. Raw Food: Learn about raw food products and recipes, and the raw food diet here.
36. Becoming Whole: Get recipes, information about the macrobiotic lifestyle and more on this site.
37. We Like it Raw: On this raw food blog, you’ll get tips on raw food cooking as well as recipes and ideas for eating out.
38. The Raw Diva’s Blog: This blog is all about "raw food solutions for women," and categories include Cravings, Greens, Health in High Heels, Raw Resources and more.
39. Jessica Porter’s Hip Chick Blog: Watch videos on macrobiotic cooking, get recipes and learn about the macrobiotic lifestyle in general.

Green Eating

Read below for natural, organic, locally grown, sustainable and ethical recipes.

40. Nourish Me: Browse tantalizing photos of fresh, natural foods on this blog, from quick cucumber and carrot pickles to lemongrass, ginger and coconut rice.
41. Local Harvest Blog: The Local Harvest community blog is no longer active, but still has great posts about traveling around the country to visit farms and local growers. Play around on the rest of the site to learn about local farmers and where you can buy fresh food.
42. The Ethicurean: This blog is all about SOLE food, food that is sustainable, organic, local and/or ethical.
43. The Slow Cook: While this food blog isn’t all about super healthy choices, it does encourage readers to reject fast food and more processed foods by taking "back control of the food we eat and the pace of our own lives."
44. Mighty Foods: This blog covers "the who, what, how and why of natural foods," and includes product reviews, recipes, studies and trends, eco-kitchen musts and more.
45. Calendula and Concrete: A Washington, D.C. blogger writes about organic gardening in this blog.
46. Mostly Eating: This English foodie writes and shares recipes for healthy meals using mostly sustainable ingredients. Browse photos for truly delicious looking dishes.
47. Organic to Be: Visit this blog for organic recipes for members of the entire family.
48. Nature Moms Blog: This "guide to natural family life" has recipes and snack ideas that fit in with a natural lifestyle.
49. Organic Authority: Get organic food recipes, organic gardening tips and general health tips for the organic lifestyle here.

Healthy Food From Around the World

If you’re in the mood for something more exotic but don’t want to give up your healthy eating choices, turn to this list.

50. Figs, Bay and Wine: The Mediterranean food diet has caught on, and you’ll find recipes and photos in this sophisticated blog.
51. My Tiny Plot: This English woman writes about her vegetable garden and eating fresh produce. You’ll find recipes and delicious-looking photographs of her harvest.
52. MediterrAsian Cooking: Get recipes and learn about the benefits of Mediterranean and Asian dishes here.
53. Blog of Herbs: Use this blog to find herbs and ingredients that help with digestion, weight loss, general nutrition, and of course adding oomph to your everyday meals.

Healthy Eating for Kids and Picky Eaters

Discover recipes, food items and ingredients that even your kids and other picky eaters will enjoy.

54. The Doof Blog: Doof is Food spelled backwards, and this blog is all about making eating right fun for kids.
55. Healthy Recipes for Kids: From fruit pizzas to deviled eggs to spaghetti squash, find ways to transform your kids’ favorite foods into healthy meals.
56. Feed Yourself: This blog aims to show readers that yummy food doesn’t have to mean processed food or fast food. Find whole food recipes and meal ideas here, from tofu tacos to peanut butter banana muffins.
57. My Husband Hates Veggies: If you’re tired of fighting with your kids (or husband) over vegetables and healthy eating, get ideas from Kitty, who’s "attempting to trick her husband into eating his vegetables" with yummy recipes.
58. Healthy Snacks for Kids: From health food pizzas to tips on getting your kids to want healthy food, this blog is a great guide for conscientious parents.
59. Super Healthy Kids: Read about this family’s mission to become a family of healthy eaters. You can also read recipes for apple oat muffins, healthy breakfasts and more.

Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

For healthy food ideas for every meal of the day, visit these blogs.

60. This Mama Cooks! On a Diet: Turn to this all-in-one food blog that posts restaurant reviews, fitness news, diet trends, and of course recipes for every meal of the day.
61. A Recipe a Day: Not all of these recipes are low-fat or low-carb, but most of them are made from fresh ingredients. You’ll also find a lot of fat free recipes by browsing the different categories.
62. But Weight, I CAN Eat It!: This "lifetime Weight Watcher" posts about the foods she wishes she could eat as well as the healthy choices she does.
63. Gina’s Weight Watcher Recipes: All the recipes on this blog, no matter how delicious and decadent they look, abide by the Weight Watchers rules. Browse by point system or meal type.
64. Healthy Tips for a Healthy Lifestyle: Learn how to prepare all of your meals the healthy way by reading the posts on this blog.

Easy Meals and Real Stories

Get inspired by these bloggers, who understand that whipping up a quick but healthy dinner is important.

65. Joanna’s Food: Joanna’s family became inspired to eat healthy after a medical emergency gave her a wake up call. The foods and recipes on her blog are healthy by still easy to make.
66. Fresh Mouth: Fresh Mouth is the blog for one family’s "mission to eat only fresh food or processed food with 5 ingredients or less for 30 days." You’ll find recipes, fun food surveys, and inventive meal ideas here.
67. Healthy Cooking: Find manageable recipes for healthy meals on this site. Recent recipes include Healthy Lentil Brown Rice Soup and Easy, Healthy Whole Wheat Pasta Meal.
68. Easy Low Fat Recipes: From low fat cocktails to low fat entrees, you’ll find recipes for every day and occasion on this blog.
69. Vegetarian Foodie: This author loves mixing "great food, wine, family and friends" and shares with readers how to do the same.

Gluten Free

For gluten free recipes and information, check out these two blogs.

70. Gluten-Free Girl: Gluten-Free Girl has been reviewed by Newsweek and The Seattle Times, and features gluten-free recipes, recommendations for places to eat out, gluten-free cookbooks and more.
71. Karina’s Kitchen: This gluten-free goddess posts recipes for banana-apricot hemp shakes, Mediterranean fish with rice and other yummy treats.

General Nutrition

Reading about nutrition should inspire you to treat your body to a healthier lifestyle. Learn about general nutrition while finding healthy recipes here.

72. Eat This!: Find out how many calories are in your typical Mexican dish, get recipes for dairy free banana bread and learn about which diets celebrities are trying on this blog.
73. Learn About Weight Loss: This weight loss blog focuses on healthy eating choices and how to lose weight by altering your eating schedule.
74. Weight Loss Made Easy: Recent posts on this healthy food guide include "3 Healthy, Power Breakfast Choices," "High Fiber Foods" and "Healthy Snacks."
75. Laurel on Health Food: Blogger Laurel shares news, recipes and general nutrition ideas for foods and ingredients, as well as healthy conditions, like sugar, coffee, leafy greens, heart disease, stress, meat, chocolate and more.
76. Mark’s Daily Apple: Get the lowdown on healthy and not-so-healthy food choices on this blog. Recent posts dissect ketosis, portion control and starter recipes.
77. Marc Joseph Nutrition Blog: Get inspired to eat healthy when you read this blog, which posts about omega-3 and omega-6 fats, diabetes, "the science of appetite" and even arsenic.
78. NAFWA Blog: This is the blog for the Nutrition and Food Web Archive. You can read about healthy food and cooking, how nutrition affects your overall health and immunity and more.

Weight Loss

If you’re trying to lose weight, check out this list, which features blogs that combine recipes, fitness tips, healthy drinks and even health risks associated with poor eating habits.

79. diet blog: This blog urges readers to "eat right. Get healthy." Recent posts include "On a Budget: 7 Tips for Healthy Food Shopping" and "Big Breakfast Diet: A Diet That Works?"
80. Eating Fabulous: Eating Fabulous is a diet food with categories for healthy snacks, immune defense, fruit and vegetables, organic produce, healthy beverages and more.
81. Eat4Today: This blogger dishes on food and the news of the day. Read about health risks associated with being overweight, vitamin supplements and more.
82. Hungry Girl: On Hungry Girl, you can do the weekly weigh-in, read about food and fitness news, and discover Hungry Girl’s Chew the Right Thing items, like the Mexi-licious Salad Explosion and Strawberry Shortcake, which have realistic calorie counts and recipes.

Desserts

I you’re bored of eating yogurt or granola as a healthy dessert alternative, turn to these blogs which have recipes for all kinds of tasty, inventive treats.

83. Diet, Dessert and Dogs: Learn to eat your dessert the healthy way when you read this blog and get recipes for egg and dairy-free butter tarts and other treats.
84. The Urban Vegan: This blogger often posts about great dessert finds that are also vegan-inspired and healthier options than many other desserts.
85. Weight Watchers Recipes Blog: Find healthier snack and dessert options on this blog.
86. The Penguin Chef: The Penguin Chef serves up delicious recipes "for the vegan dessert lover."
87. My Sweet Vegan: You can learn about the vegan lifestyle on this blog, which also frequently posts healthy dessert recipes.

Eating Out

Don’t give up your good eating habits when you go out to eat: these blogs will keep you motivated.

88. We Want Clean Food!: Restaurateur, chef and former punk rocker Ric Orlando blogs about picking and choosing clean food. He shares tips for making sure your food is "clean" even when you eat out or are on the go.
89. HappyCow’s Vegetarian Guide: This network posts information about vegetarian restaurants and stores all over the world, so you can eat healthy even on vacation.

Food News and Health

The following list includes blogs that discuss medical information, FDA reports, recipes, health food myths and more.

90. JunkFood Science: This nurse blogs about "news on food, weight, health and healthcare that mainstream media misses."
91. What to Eat: NYU professor Marion Nestle blogs about obesity, calorie counters, public health, dietary guidelines the FDA, smart foods and more.
92. The Heart of the Matter — Eating for Life: Find recipes and inspiration for eating heart-healthy meals on this blog.
93. Limes and Lycopene: This Australian blog "aims to cut through the rubbish, misinformation and downright silliness about health, diet and naturopathy."
94. Diet Detective Blogs: Recent posts from bloggers on this network include " Oregano ingredient effective against inflammations" and " Eating Slowly Can Help You Lose Weight."
95. Circle of Food Blog:Find recipes as well as food safety information and medical news here.
96. Diabetic Recipes - Diabetic Meals: Diabetics can find sugar-free and other yummy recipes just for them on this blog.

Miscellaneous

Our final list features a mix of foodie blogs that will inspire you to eat right everyday.

97. The BTD/GTD Blogs: You’ll learn about eating for your blood type and related diets on this site.
98. Eat Right Daily: This blog is full of inspiration for homemade, fresh and generally healthy meals. Browse categories like pasta, fish, salad, poultry, dessert and others.
99. Diet and Healthy Eating: Self magazine’s blog features celebrity diets, healthy seasonal recipes and ideas for eating healthy while on vacation.
100. Healthy Food Journal: Read about all the healthy foods that are out there on this blog, which posts recipes and health food news.

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