Vitamin D Recommendations Changed
The Institute of Medicine tripled their official vitamin D recommendation, based on target blood levels...
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The so-called optimism bias may get in the way of a healthy lifestyle.
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Is Pomegranate Juice That Wonderful?
Food companies (such as POM Wonderful) invoke the First Amendment to defend false and unsubstantiated...
Alzheimer’s & Apple Juice
Pilot study published on whether apple juice could affect the cognitive performance, day-to-day functioning, mood,...
Constructing a Cognitive Portfolio
Different fruits and vegetables appear to support different cognitive domains of the brain, so both...
Best Fruit Juice
Which common fruit juices have the most (and least) phenolic phytonutrients, which may protect against...
Phytochemicals: The Nutrition Facts Missing from the Label
There are thousands of flavonoid phytonutrients in fruits, vegetables, and other whole plant foods missing...
Amyloid & Apple Juice
Ginger and apple juice appear to protect human nerve cells from the neurotoxic Alzheimer's plaque...
MRSA in U.S. Retail Meat
More than a thousand retail meat samples have been tested for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)...
Airborne MRSA
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus "superbug" found not only contaminating the U.S. retail meat supply, but isolated...
U.S. Meat Supply Flying at Half Staph
An investigation finds 47% of U.S. retail meat tested is contaminated with staph (Staphylococcus) bacteria....
Infant Nearly Killed by Homeopathy
Case report of life-threatening metabolic acidosis in an infant "overdosed" with homeopathic sugar pills.
Total Recall
Salmonella, the leading cause of food poisoning-related death, can survive most common egg cooking methods—including...
