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Q: I know it can be harmful to eat charred, blackened meat. Is the...

Answer : A We posed this question to Rashmi Sinha, PhD, senior investigator at the National Cancer Institute...

Q: I know that 100% whole-wheat bread is better for you than white bread....

Answer : Both rye bread and pumpernickel bread are typically made with a mix of rye flour and wheat flour.

Q: I enjoy eating buffalo meat when I am able to buy it from...

Answer : Buffalo (bison) meat is indeed much naturally lower in fat than beef from cattle. Its proportion of saturated, polyunsaturated and monounsaturated fat...

Q: I am confused by whether shrimp and other shellfish are good in the...

Answer : The good news for shrimp and other shellfish is that the major dietary factor that raises LDL (bad) cholesterol is saturated fat, not dietary cholesterol...

Q: Back in the 1950s, Carlton Fredericks, a popular radio personality, touted the virtues...

Answer : Molasses is a concentrated byproduct of refining sugar cane into table sugar. Black strap molasses comes from the third and final boiling...