Healthy Eating

Picking healthy foods when eating out is a priority

Eating more legumes, vegetables and fruits and less meat is associated with lower mortality risk, accord-ing to a new study. But that doesnt mean becoming a vegetarian necessarily means youll live longer, cautions Alice H. Lichtenstein, DSc, director of Tufts HNRCA Cardiovascular Nutrition Laboratory.

Weighing the trade-offs between dairy, soy, almond and other choices.

How much of a food product has to be whole grains to qualify to use the term

There may be more than a fiery kick in that imported salsa.

Advocates of health-conscious menu labeling have their work cut out for

Unless you have celiac disease, avoiding gluten might actually make you less healthy by missing out on important nutrients.

Is it true that apples are the healthiest fruit, as that old keeps the doctor away saying suggests? Diane L. McKay, PhD, an assistant professor at Tufts Friedman School, says, This is actually one of the questions I like to pose to our PhD candidates during their qualifying exam.

If you studied the headlines this spring about the latest report on dietary sodium and concluded you could stop worrying and maybe have an extra bag of chips, think again. True, thats certainly how most of the news coverage of the report from the prestigious Institute of Medicine (IOM) read: No Benefit Seen in Sharp Limits on Salt in Diet, headlined the New York Times. Report questions reducing salt intake too dramatically was the take in USA Today. And CNN announced, Report questions benefits of salt reduction.

Answer :Dehydrated, powdered, juiced and spraydried fruit and vegetable products can never deliver all the nutritional value of the original produce. Even if a product has the same amount of antioxidants and phytonutrients as a daily diet of fruits and vegetables, youre missing the fiber and other benefits of eating whole foods. Youre also not using fruits and vegetables to replace other, higher-calorie and high-fat foods in your diet. …