Fats

Where Is Your Sodium Coming From?

From bread to soups, pasta dishes to poultry, the answers might surprise you.
Heres how to shake your hidden salt.
Pancreatic cancer, on the rise in the United States, may be deterred by maintaining adequate vitamin D status

How Can You Tell If Its Really Whole Grain?

Celebrate Whole Grains Month in September by making sure youre buying the real thing. If youre trying to include more whole grains in your diet, youre not alone. The whole world is catching on

Cost of Eating Right-Whos Right?

Does eating a healthy diet really cost more than picking foods high in saturated fat

Fat Choices Also Affect Your Brain

That bacon double cheeseburger might be as bad for your brain as it is for your heart

Can Fish Oil Help Keep You Young?

Increasing your ratio of omega-3s to omega-6 fats may slow aging at the cellular level.

Makeover Your Meals with 13 Healthy Ideas for 2013

Small changes add up-heres how to get started eating smarter.

Sea Salt Ineffective for Sodium Reduction

Dont count on sea salt to reduce your dietary sodium intake.

Eat Right to Fight Heartburn and Reflux

Reading the news about heartburn might be enough to give you the painful condition if you arent already among the estimated 44% of Americans who suffer at least once a month. First came warnings that long-term use of a popular type of heartburn medications-proton-pump inhibitors (PPIs)-might increase the risk of hip fractures in people over 50. Now gastroenterologists are reporting cases that dont even respond completely to those medications.

Less Fat, More Fast Food in US Diet

Were consuming less fat but eating out more than in the 1970s, according to a good news/bad news report from the USDAs Economic Research Service.

No Need to Worry About Calcium and Your Heart

Research finds no link between calcium intake and coronary artery calcification.