Heart Smart: Aim to eat a rainbow of vegetables

The nutritional advantages to filling half your plate at every meal with fruits and vegetables are endless. They supply vitamins, minerals and fiber, which may work together to protect against a host of chronic diseases. Fruits and vegetables also provide a long list of antioxidants and phytochemicals, both of which are essential to good health.

Dietitians Dish: Give food an extra boost of antioxidants with spices

Our bodies can be inundated by many harmful environmental exposures, such as tobacco smoke, sun exposure or a high-fat meal. These exposures can cause a chemical reaction that can cause free radicals.

Easy Tips for Family Dinners Deliver Big On Taste and Antioxidants

(Family Features) The weeknight rotation of go-to family, dinnertime favorites, just got better — and better for you. The flavor experts in the McCormick Kitchens took up the challenge to find easy ways to add more flavor, plus antioxidants, to the top internet-searched

Weekly challenge: eat more berries

With their rich, deep colors, berries of all varieties -- strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, blueberries -- are known as the nutritional powerhouses of the fruit family. They're packed with more antioxidants than other fruits and vegetables and are chock full of other plant chemicals or phytochemicals.

Megan Murphy: Sandwich a shoo-in for Meatless Mondays

One of the best things you can do for your health is to eat more plant foods and less meat. With so many different vitamins and minerals and powerful antioxidants, fruits, vegetables, legumes and other plant foods can benefit us in many ways.