February 22, 2012 Vegetables Rate by Nitrate If nitrates can boost athletic performance and protect against heart disease, which vegetables have the...
February 21, 2012 Hearts Shouldn’t Skip a Beet The nitrate in vegetables, which the body can turn into the vasodilator nitric oxide, may...
February 20, 2012 Pretty in Pee-nk Beeturia, the passage of pink urine after beetroot consumption, is a reminder that phytonutrients circulate...
February 17, 2012 Asparagus Pee Young infants, and perhaps those with recurrent oxalate kidney stones, should avoid beets. But most...
February 16, 2012 Out of the Lab Onto the Track Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover studies convinced the scientific establishment that nitrate-rich vegetables (such as beets)...
February 15, 2012 Don’t Use Antiseptic Mouthwash The natural flora on our tongue (lingual bacteria) are essential for the athletic performance-enhancing effect...
February 14, 2012 Priming the Proton Pump To understand how beets could reduce the oxygen cost of exercise while improving athletic performance,...
February 13, 2012 Doping with Beet Juice Beets found to significantly improve athletic performance while reducing oxygen needs—upsetting a fundamental tenet of...
February 10, 2012 Soy Worth a Hill of Beans? Are soybeans better than other types of beans for heart disease prevention—or does the soy...
February 9, 2012 New Vitamin B12 Test Who should get tested for vitamin B12 (cobalamin) deficiency, and which is the best test...
February 8, 2012 Daily Source of Vitamin B12 Fortified foods, such as some breakfast cereals and types of nutritional yeast, can provide another...
February 7, 2012 Cheapest Source of Vitamin B12 Vitamin B12 (cobalamin) supplementation can cost as little as $2 a year.