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These fast-food smoothies might be delicious, but they pack on a lot of calories, fat, sodium and sugar.

Now that spring is heating up and the cold weather is (mostly) behind us, we’ll soon be cooling down with a variety of icy beverages.

Many people tend to think of summertime drinks as light, refreshing and healthy (after all, what could be so terrible about a fruit smoothie?), but some of these beverages are packed with calories, fat, sodium and sugar.

Read more: Are refreshing summer drinks sabotaging your diet?

I just finished booking a week-long summer vacation at the beach, and I can’t wait! But a week at the beach also means a week in a bikini. I’m not sure which is going to be the bigger challenge—finding a week’s worth of bikinis that I actually like or making my body bikini-worthy.

Read more here: Fill up on these 5 fresh summer foods for a bikini body

Last July 4, Joey Chestnut earned his third consecutive victory in Coney Island’s Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest—the gustatory champ downed 68 hot dogs in 10 minutes. That jaw-dropping stat is made scarier still when you realize that Chestnut consumed over 20,000 calories in that time. That’s a whole day’s worth of calories … per minute.

Read more here: Best & Worst BBQ Foods

When it’s 90 degrees outside, the last thing you want to do is fire up your oven. Even if the air conditioning is blasting, it still seems wrong to waste energy cooling down the kitchen in the summer. Thankfully, there are plenty of healthy, delicious meals you can put together without preheating the oven, turning on a burner, or even standing over a flaming outdoor grill in the sweltering heat. Here are ten of my favorite “no-cook” dinners to keep you feeling cool all season long:

Read more here: 10 No-Cook Dinners To Beat The Summer Heat

It’s high time to think beyond the iceberg. Chef Stephen Kalt shows us how to cook up three creative salads featuring in-season fruits and vegetables in unexpected, summery combinations. Move over, lettuce; there are some new stars in the salad bowl.

View video here: Make over my summer salad! Three new fresh seasonal recipes

Those fresh, delicious summer salads that sustain life in sauna-like weather? They can do a lot more than keep you cool. In fact, five salad veggies turn out to be antioxidant superstars. Toss a handful into any bowl and you’ll instantly up your defenses against everything from wrinkles to heart disease and even help make your RealAge younger. Then season some olive oil and vinegar with a few of the herbs and spices below and you’ll punch up the antioxidant power even more. Health food doesn’t get any easy-breezier!

Read more here: Five veggies that make any salad super-healthy

When the weather’s hot, toss up one of these salads for a wonderful meal or side dish

Read more here: Easy summer salads

• Also see: Test Kitchen’s Recipe Box: Spectacular Summer Salads