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 Diet Promotes Diabetes A new study has found that people who eat a calorie-dense diet (think steak and ice cream) are up to 60% more likely to develop adult onset diabetes.... more 11/19/08 Pet Food Scare -- Part Two A salmonella outbreak has been tied to dry pet food. It is small, but worth being on the lookout for. And prevention is pretty straightforward... more 11/18/08 Fruits Help Fight the Flu A compound found in many fruits and vegetables, particularly apples, appears to lessen the chances of upper respiratory infection, especially after... more 10/17/08 Mediterraneans: More Good News The Mediterranean Diet is the current poster child for healthy eating, and a new look at the data only underscores its health benefits... more 10/15/08 Eating Fish Benefits Babies Women who eat fish regularly while pregnant and who breastfeed tend to see better physical and mental development... more 10/8/08 Is A Raw Diet The Real Deal? Eating raw foods avoids many of the pitfalls of a traditional Western diet – like added salt and sugar. But it is not so simple as it seems... more 10/03/08 Killer Salt: Another Look A high-salt diet remains a sure way to develop hypertension, the high blood pressure that increases the likelihood of heart disease and stroke. And genes won’t... more 10/02/08 Eat Your Broccoli! Add protecting blood vessels in diabetes patients to the long list of broccoli’s health benefits. A new study has found that a compound in broccoli... more 10/01/08 Your Brain On Chocolate Chocolate may help keep dementia at bay by increasing blood flow to the brain ...more 9/23/08 Eating Eggs for Breakfast May Help Dieters Shed Pounds A recent study has found that eating a fairly low calorie breakfast of eggs is far better for your diet than eating a similarly low-calorie bagel… ...more 8/7/08 Another Reason to Avoid Beef? Prions, the proteins that cause mad cow disease, can be transmitted by feces, a new study has found, raising questions about safe disposal...more 8/7/08 Jotting Down What You Eat May Be the Key to Increase Weight Loss Subjects in a new diet study who kept written track of what they ate lost twice as much weight on average as fellow dieters who didn't keep a diary...more 7/30/08 Beat the Heat, Win the Meet Dehydration is a problem for elite athletes and the not-so-elite athletes, especially children...more 7/25/08 A User's Guide to Flavonoids Flavinoids are credited with extending life, offsetting the effects of aging, AND they are found in chocolate...more 7/22/08 Teen Weight Gain: The Big Three Young women who stay up late surfing the Internet, drinking alcohol and losing sleep were more likely to gain weight...more 7/21/08 Eat Better and Enjoy It More -- Enhancing Senior Nutrition Older adults often don't take in the nutrients they should, and the consequences can be serious...more 7/11/08 Salmonella Outbreak Continues; Many Clues But Few Answers Read what the current thinking is...more 7/9/08 FDA's Trans Fat Labels: Misunderstood The label says four grams of trans fat. Seems small, right? Actually, those four grams represent approximately 70 percent...more 7/8/08 Boron May Reduce Lung Cancer Risk in Women Tiny, trace amounts of the mineral boron can help prevent lung cancer according to a new study...more 6/25/08 With Teens, "Diet" May Lead to Obesity Parents who feel their teen is overweight can do more harm than good by suggesting a diet, a new study has found...more 6/19/08 "Bulking Up" and Heart Disease A study of NFL linemen has found they tend to high blood pressure, high levels of bad cholesterol and lipids, and high body weight...more 6/10/08 Treating Heart Risk in the Obese -- Pills Are Not Enough Overweight people with hypertension, diabetes and high cholesterol may think that the medication they take will protect them from heart disease...more 6/3/08 The Anti-Jet Lag Diet This diet will help you avoid the exhaustion and dislocation traveling across time zones...more 5/30/08 100% Natural -- Hype? Do you know the difference between "100 percent natural" and "organic" and "free range?" You should...more 5/23/08 "Appetite" Hormone Discovered Scientists have discovered the hormone that gives food its appeal even when we aren't hungry...more 5/21/08 You Are What Your Mom Ate The declining male birthrate may be related to women's diets just before conception...more 5/12/08 Healthy-Size You Reducing your intake of fast food can reverse the liver damage caused by a high fat diet...more 5/9/08 Using Breakfast to Stabilize Blood Sugar What you eat for breakfast can reduce the insulin rollercoaster and your risk for heart attack, stroke, type 2 diabetes and heart failure...more 5/6/08 Making Counting Calories Count A new NYC regulation requires restaurants to put the calorie count of foods on their menus and menu boards...more 4/30/08 School Lunch to the Rescue A new study has found that when schools establish guidelines and rewards for healthy eating, obesity rates by half...more 4/23/08 Normal Weight Obesity Normal weight people who have a high percentage of body fat for their weight face the same health issues that obviously obese people do...more 4/11/08 Green Tea Improves Effectiveness of Antibiotics Drinking green tea can make antibiotics up to three times more effective, even against drug-resistant strains of bacteria...more 4/10/08 Should We Take Multivitamins? A multivitamin in addition to eating nutrient-rich foods may leave men at risk for prostate or colorectal cancer...more 3/10/08 Low Fat Diet Helps Lower Blood Pressure Women following a diet with plenty of low-fat dairy products are at lower risk for high blood pressure...more 3/6/08 Zinc, An Economical and Effective Treatment for a Major Health Problem Zinc helps end diarrhea in children, a finding that may make it a simple answer to an international health problem...more 2/27/08 Getting Our Children off the Road to Heart Disease Good eating and exercise habits need to begin early...more 2/25/08 No-Cal Weight Gain Saccharin may actually make it harder to lose weight and leave you vulnerable to metabolic syndrome...more 2/15/08 Folate Deficiency Triples Dementia Risk People who are deficient in folate are 3.5 times more likely to develop dementia...more 2/12/08 Got Gout? A man's chances of getting gout go up with his fructose-sweetened soda consumption...more 2/9/08 Food Fighters: Should Dieters Enlist Carbs or Protein in the War on Appetite? The hunger hormone, ghrelin, is providing researchers with a way of measuring whether carbs or protein affect hunger...more 2/4/08 New Research Challenges Idea of Vitamin D Deficiency A new study has found that Vitamin D deficiency may be a good thing for our ability to fight disease...more 2/1/08 Sweet Drinks, Stealth Calories Calorie-intake from beverages has nearly doubled in the past 37 years. Any wonder why obesity is up? more 12/18/07 As Fat As It Gets? Holiday food alert: Obesity rates have leveled off. Or should we say topped off? They are astounding...more Broccoli's Day in the Sun Broccoli prevents sunburn. You don't even need to eat it...more 11/27/07 Chewing the Fat (Off) Chewing gum before a meal can reduce hunger...more 11/12/07 Fasting: Is It a Good Idea? Fasting reduces the size of fat cells as well as weight...more 9/26/07 Vitamin E: Yes and No Vitamin E is good for some, but not for all...more 9/18/07 Vitamin C + Fat Consumption = Trouble Too much fat combined with vitamin C can cause cancer...more 9/10/07 Eat More Fish Oil, Less Vegetable Oil Fish oil causes less inflammation than vegetable oil...more 8/3//07 Low Cholesterol Associated with Cancer? Side effects of cholestrol-lowering drugs = increased cancer risk? more 7/23/07 Food Cravings and Weight Control In general, cravings are for foods high in calories...more 7/23/07 Folic Acid and Vitamin B-12 Folic acid hides vitamin B-12 deficiency? more 7/9/07 Can Omega-3 Prevent Blindness? Omega-3 may protect against several common types of blindness...more 6/21/07 Eat Too Much Hormones Synthetic "satiety hormone" may help avoid binge eating...more 6/11/07 Keeping It Off Is the hopeless cycle of weight loss and gain a myth? more 6/11/07 Red Wine Protects the Prostate Are flavonoids found in red wine the key to lower prostate cancer risk? more 5/29/07 Can Salt Cause Ulcers? Exposure to salt makes bacteria stronger and more virulent...more 5/29/07 Digesting Protein -- a Hidden Problem Digesting protein can be more difficult than usual...more 4/30/07 The Elderly & Vitamin D Vitamin D is important to overall health...more 4/23/07 First Evidence of Alcohol-Cancer Link Scientific confirmation of alcohol leading to cancers...more 3/22/07 Zinc Health For Children Third-world children protected from disease by zinc...more 3/15/07 Belly Fat and Disease Excess belly fat contributes to increased inflammation? more 3/15/07 Gastric Bypass & Vitamin B1 Deficiency Weight-loss surgery can lead to dangerous vitamin deficiency...more 3/12/07 Fewer Carbohydrates, More Weight Loss New study finds Atkins diet = more weight loss over a year...more 3/7/07 Hot Brewed Health Positive effects of coffee on health...more 1/23/07 Echinacea: Can It Make You Sick? Echinacea's possible adverse affect on the gastrointestinal tract...more 12/29/06 Huntington's Linked to Cholesterol Levels in Brain? Cholesterol accumulation indicates Huntington's disease...more 12/5/06 Folic Acid Cuts Heart Disease Risk Using folic acid as a cheap and simple way of combatting heart disease and strokes... more 11/28/06 Can Diet Can Protect Us Against Cancer? Dietary weapons to protect ourselves from cancer... more 11/20/06 Take Vitamin D to Slow Breast Cancer? Early stagers had higher levels of vitamin D...more 10/23/06 Does Breastfeeding Really Make Your Child Smarter? A new study finds that breastfeeding has little or no effect...more 10/9/06 Prenatal Vitamins and Brain Tumors Prenal multivitamin may reduce risk of child tumor development...more 9/27/06 Gastric Bypass Surpassed? Another surgery better than gastric bybass... more 9/27/06 Read Any Good Food Labels Lately? Poor literacy and math skills affect comprehension of food labels... more 9/27/06 Can a Vitamin Fight MS? Vitamin B3 fights long-term MS disability?... more 9/22/06 Rapid Weight-Loss and Dementia A link between weight loss and dementia...more 9/18/06 Vitamin D Fights Pancreatic Cancer Vitamin D cuts pancreatic cancer risk in half...more 9/12/06 Obesity and Your Baby's Diet Minimally processed food better for baby...more 9/7/06 Drinking and Running How much is too much? more 8/1/06 Can a Curry a Day Keep the Oncologist Away? Not only tasty but really good for you, too...more 8/1/06 Keep on the Sunny Side Could sunlight help reduce risk of cancer? more 8/1/06 Obesity Surgery: Yes or Maybe Not The good and bad of surgery to remedy obesity...more 7/31/06 Less is More Utensil size could affect how much one eats...more 7/26/06 Can Calcium Make Pregnancy Safer? Increased calcium intake during pregnancy beneficial...more 7/18/06 Drink to Your Health Watch what you - drink? more 7/7/06 Pomegranate 1, Cancer 0 Pomegranate juice fights prostate cancer? more 7/1/06 Quit Smoking. Get Fat. Weight gain comes with quitting smoking... more 6/30/06 If You Needed a Reason to Drink Coffee Coffee fights Type 2 diabetes... more 6/30/06 Super E Designer vitamin E could kill cancer... more 6/1/06 Sugar Buster A common food may reduce the risk of diabetes... more 3/30/04 No Fad Diets that avoid supposedly unhealthy food categories may themselves be unhealthy... more 11/4/02 Kids and Cod Researchers say that a daily spoonful of cod liver oil can protect children from those nasty ear infections... more 9/25/02 C Mystery Solved? Researchers find a clue about how Vitamin C and cancer prevention... more 2/12/02 And Baby Makes... A new study suggests that America's mothers are eating too much during pregnancy... more 3/30/01 Got Dairy? Researchers find that milk products may help you lose weight... more 6/7/00 As Easy As Pie Nutritionist claim that cherries are a powerful triple threat in the body's battle against cancer... more 4/3/00 Lactose Intolerant? New research suggests drinking milk might be the best remedy... more 3/27/00 | |
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