The Odds on Good Health
12/12/2011When it comes to health, it’s all based on odds, not guarantees. Anyone who tells you that if you take...
Read MoreLet Them Eat Fries: School Lunch Reform Squashed
12/3/2011Congress just voted to block legislation that would make school lunches a whole lot healthier than they now are. The...
Read MoreCoffee Can Ward Off Depression
11/29/2011A study, at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, found that women who drink four or more cups...
Read MoreWhite Produce and Stroke Risk
11/19/2011A recent study has found that those who regularly eat greater quantities of white fruits and vegetables are 52 percent less likely...
Read MoreNew Weight Loss Study
11/11/2011A recent obesity study out of Australia has concluded that when people lose weight, their metabolism automatically slows down and...
Read MoreLow Carb Diet and Coronary Heart Disease
11/10/2011A study released in the New England Journal of Medicine concludes that diets lower in carbohydrate and higher in protein...
Read MoreJunk Food May Impair Fertility
10/29/2011A recent study out of the Harvard School of Public Health found that when men eat fatty, unhealthy food, their sperm...
Read MoreStudy On Sperm and Junk Food
10/28/2011A recent study out of the Harvard School of Public Health, found that when men eat fatty, unhealthy food, their...
Read MoreAnatomy and Physiology of the Immune System, Part 4
10/3/2011In our concluding segment on the immune system, we progressively step outside the box and draw a clear line between...
Read MoreListeria Tainted Cantaloupes
10/1/2011As of this morning, 16 people around the United States have died from eating listeria infected cantaloupes and 72 have...
Read MoreCan FoodCorps Reduce Obesity?
9/29/2011FoodCorps is an offshoot of Americorps -- the evolution of the old VISTA program -- will train a team of...
Read MoreThe Bacon-Diabetes Connection
9/24/2011According to a recent study, regular consumption of all forms of red meat will make you a candidate for diabetes. ...
Read More“Gluten-Free” Isn’t Always Gluten-Free
8/27/2011Just because a food is labeled "gluten-free" on its packaging does not mean that it is actually gluten-free. There may...
Read MoreCentenarians Not Necessarily Health Conscious
8/23/2011To date, the research has found no undisclosed food, chant, or medicine responsible for the exceptionally long lives of centenarians....
Read MoreLack Of Exercise Leading Risk Factor For Alzheimer’s
8/19/2011A new study recently released by the University of California in San Francisco, suggests that the single biggest risk factor...
Read MoreIs Salt Addictive? An Appetite for Salt and Drugs
8/16/2011Scientists from Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina and the University of Melbourne in Australia teamed up and...
Read MoreMcDonald’s Happy Meals to Go Healthy?
8/9/2011McDonald's has announced that it intends to cut the French Fries portion in half and add fruit or vegetables to...
Read MoreThe Rap on Food Wraps
7/14/2011While plastic wrap doesn’t usually contain BPA, it typically contains the carcinogen chlorine plusa substance called DEHA, which acts as an...
Read MoreThe Latest on Cooking Oil
6/30/2011A new study shows that people who use lots of olive oil, even in cooking, have a considerably lower stroke...
Read MoreCoffee Cuts Lethal Prostate Cancer
6/25/2011A study conducted at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston showed that regularly consuming six or more cups...
Read MoreE. Coli Outbreak
6/13/2011E. coli is back in the news and once again causing hysteria beyond its actual threat. Yes, this latest outbreak...
Read MoreThe Paleo Diet
5/16/2011Diets come, and diets go. And like fashion, if you wait long enough, what is now out will eventually return...
Read MorePredicting Diabetes
5/2/2011Earlier this month, Nature Magazine published the results of a study that found that a simple blood test can spot...
Read MoreCoffee’s Stroke Protection
4/30/2011Recent research that took place at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, found that women who have more than one...
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