Are You Over-Supplementing?
... Is every juice carton in your refrigerator labeled “calcium-fortified?” How about the cereals in your cupboard? Are vitamin bottles stacked up like pyramids in your medicine cabinet? We all do it. In ...

Food Pyramid Gets Interactive
... After much concern about the prevalence of obesity in the United States, the government set out to trim the waistlines of Americans when it published the 2005 Dietary Guidelines in January 2005. In Ap...

Helpful Fiber, Protein Suggestions
... The following is a list of foods that can help you achieve your quota of 20 to 25 grams of fiber daily: ¾ cup raisin bran (5 grams) 1 red apple (3 grams) 2 slices whole wheat bread (3.2 grams) lettuce...

Getting the Skinny on Trans Fats
... In many ways, foods are deceiving, frustrating compounds. The ones that look and taste great often aren’t so great for you, and the ones that don’t look and taste so great, often are. So it’s no wonde...

The Benefits of Water
... Almost everyone knows that you should drink eight glasses of water a day. But is it really necessary? "Absolutely," says Cleveland Clinic nutritionist Andrea Dunn. "Almost every cell in...

Vitamins: Help or Hindrance to Good Health?
... We ask questions when a physician prescribes a medication: Why do we need it? What is it good for? What are the side effects? Yet, many of us never ask those basic questions about vitamin/mineral supp...