Get articles, daily on the email! A major aim of the latest label laws has been to standardize the terms used when making health claims. Here’s a rundown of some of the most common terms and how manufacturers are allowed to define them according to the Food and Drug Administration guidelines. Free One serving contains only trace amounts of or no [...]
Due to its role in heart disease, meat-eating is believed by many doctors to be responsible for just as many deaths as smoking and drinking combined. Is it an addiction? Is it negligence? Is it procrastination? Whatever the case, it would be safe to say that foresight is a function that’s not frequently employed when [...]
Can dessert make your restaurant meal nutritionally complete? Maybe, if you ask for pumpkin pie! A recent survey shows people who eat in restaurants — even if it’s just once a week — have diets lower in nifty substances called carotenoids, found in fruits and vegetables. Carotenoids snuff out free radicals that help cause heart [...]
A giant study of women in Iowa may have yielded a prime clue to one diet-cancer link. Among 35,000 women age 55 to 69, the ones who ate hamburger more than once a week (one serving was considered 4 to 6 oz.) had almost twice the risk of developing non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma–a cancer of the immune [...]
Tomatoes are red-hot! First came studies showing that people who ate the most tomato products had less prostate and colon cancer. Now for the first time, we’re hearing that tomatoes prevent heart attacks. In Europe, men with the highest tissue levels of lycopene — the compound in tomatoes that may turn out to be the [...]
If you use margarine, it’s time to find one that’s free of substances called trans fats. More than ever before, it appears that trans fats — created when liquid vegetable oils are partially hydrogenated to make them solid — are unhealthy. A new study shows that nurses who ate the most trans fats had more [...]
Question > I have heard a great deal of controversy regarding different cooking oils and which are best to use. I don’t deep-fry anything. I usually use oil only when I’m stir-frying or sautéing. I have stuck to safflower and olive oil since they are supposed to be the lowest in saturated fat. Is this [...]