{"id":485361,"date":"2026-02-19T13:19:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T13:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/485361\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T13:19:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T13:19:06","slug":"how-cooking-at-home-can-benefit-your-physical-and-mental-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/485361\/","title":{"rendered":"How cooking at home can benefit your physical and mental health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"U2XFI27RDJAX7JEDBAOTOQFTXQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Cooking at home is one of the best things you can do for your health. No matter what you make, home-cooked meals tend to be better for you \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/food\/2023\/04\/06\/salt-facts-myths-cooking-baking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">lower in sodium<\/a> and saturated fat and more sensibly portioned \u2014 than restaurant food or takeout. If you lean into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/recipes\/?diet=healthy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">more healthful recipes<\/a>, that\u2019s even better. But it\u2019s not only the food itself that\u2019s beneficial, as Nicki Sizemore explains in her cookbook \u201cMind, Body, Spirit, Food.\u201d The process of cooking itself can be nourishing, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cooking at home is one of the best things you can do for your health. No matter what&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":485362,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[49,48,84,395],"class_list":["post-485361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nutrition","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-nutrition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}