Study: The Best and Worst Foods for Healthy Weight
When it comes to keeping your weight down, a new study by Harvard researchers suggests that the quality of your food matters more than its calorie count.
Study: How ‘Fake’ Fats Can Make You Really Fat
“Diet” snacks usually contain some sort of fake fat or sugar — a synthetic substitute that helps make the food taste as sweet or as rich as the real thing, but without the calories. The thinking is that eating fake fats will help dieters lose weight.
5 Ways To Age Gracefully and Healthfully
Most of us say we would like to age gracefully. But the concept seems pretty much out of our hands or in the hands of a plastic surgeon. We say we aren’t going to take those drastic measures, but then many of us end up doing so. Why? Because we didn’t just take the simple, natural measures we…
It’s Time to End the War on Salt
For decades, policy makers have tried and failed to get Americans to eat less salt. In April 2010 the Institute of Medicine urged the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to regulate the amount of salt that food manufacturers put into products…
How Industrial Farming ‘Destroyed’ The Tasty Tomato
If you bite into a tomato between the months of October and June, chances are that tomato came from Florida. The Sunshine State accounts for one-third of all fresh tomatoes produced in the United States…
More Evidence Vitamin D Boosts Immune Response
The research suggests that vitamin D can help protect the gums from bacterial infections that lead to gingivitis and periodontitis. Periodontitis affects up to 50 percent of the US population…