When you are trying to be healthy, sometimes knowing what foods are bad for you is as important as knowing which foods you should be eating. While there are, sadly, a wide [...]
Many Americans, when faced with a serious health risk like high cholesterol, opt to take a pill rather than adopt healthier living habits. A middle-aged woman I know is [...]
Grains — whole, ancient or neither — are under attack. Just as we have finally embraced vegetables on our plates, grains and starches have started disappearing from our [...]
Nobody eats fast food because it’s good for them. Yes, McDonald’s, Burger King, the various Yum! Brands offerings (KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut), and even the [...]
Perhaps no two words together are more likely to set the internet aflame than BACON and CANCER. So when the World Health Organization classified processed meat as a group 1 [...]
It also protects your body from heart disease, heart attacks and stroke Banana skins are not rubbish after all if scientists are to be believed. The peel is rich with [...]
A girl on my floor won’t eat pizza at Late Night with me. That’s right. Even after a long, rigorous day of studying she refuses the carbs that Late Night so easily [...]
The nutritional pickle so many Americans are now in is largely a result of “an oversimplification of dietary recommendations that created a fat phobia,” Dr. Frank B. Hu [...]
CHICAGO — Eating a high-fat diet as a youngster can affect learning and memory during adulthood, studies have shown. But new findings suggest such diets may not have [...]
A food fight is shaping up in Washington over what the federal government should — and shouldn’t — be telling Americans about their diets. Every five years, [...]