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Podcast: Play in new window | Download If you’re taking a multiple vitamin, why are you doing it? To prevent heart disease? If so, the long-running Physicians’ Health Study has some mixed news: multiple vitamins may slightly reduce cancer risk, but they don’t prevent heart disease. Vitamins were originally discovered when medical researchers realized that [...]
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Americans are supplement users, and according the the latest survey by the Council for Responsible Nutrition, 69% of adults are taking some supplements, up from 66% in 2010. Two-thirds of those report using “vitamin/mineral” supplements, while one-third report taking speciality supplements like omega-3 fatty acids, which are the [...]
Can you eat too many vegetables? Honestly, I don’t think there is such a thing as too many vegetables. In fact, I wonder if it’s possible to live on nothing but vegetables. It certainly wouldn’t be boring. The main drawback would be getting enough protein. It could work if you include cooked dried beans in [...]
When disease strikes down a famous person, interest in that disease increases at least temporarily. In the case of breast cancer, already on the minds of millions of women, Elizabeth Edwards’ death will heighten interest in possible diet or nutrition interventions that prevent or cure this dreaded disease. The most important message so far: no [...]
Are you haunted by nutritional hobgoblins? Halloween ghosts and monsters may haunt us once a year, but food and nutrition spooks are scaring people everyday all year long. Are they really that scary? High Fructose Corn Syrup: Eek! It causes obesity and everything else that’s bad. No. Too many calories cause obesity. If you consume [...]
What, only 3? Well, these could be the most nutritionally insulting: Vitamin Water: brightly colored, artificially flavored water, with a tad of random vitamins thrown in. Do you take a multiple vitamin? Eat cereal? You’re already getting supplemental doses of those few vitamins. Not to mention, natural doses of those vitamins, and many more, from [...]
Nothing says summer quite like watermelon, even though it increasingly turns up in grocery stores in spring. It's one fruit that (mostly) hasn't … Read More
