Healthy Eating

Eating Right Improves Your Odds of Avoiding Mental Decline

Heres more evidence that eating right is good for your brain-and that a diet low in key nutrients and high in unhealthy fats may actually contribute to cognitive decline with aging. Researchers report that older adults with higher blood levels of the B vitamins, vitamins C, D and E and omega-3s scored better on tests of mental performance and showed healthier brains in MRI scans. But older adults with high levels of trans fats, a sign of an unhealthy diet, scored worse on cognitive tests and had lower brain volume.

Healthy Diet, Not Specific Nutrients, Best for Stroke Protection

An overall healthy diet, such as the DASH diet or the dietary pattern found in Mediterranean countries

Drinking Black Tea May Lower Blood Pressure

Maybe the English are onto something with their fondness for tea. A new Australian study reports

Coffee Compounds Protect Pancreas Function

Previous studies have shown that drinking coffee may help protect against

Food Consumers Confuse Ethical with Healthy

Does chocolate produced by companies that pay good wages and provide health insurance

Fiery Foods Boost Calorie Burning

That spicy kick from your favorite fiery chili may also be kick-starting

Its Never Too Late to Eat Right

Study links a healthy diet to longevity among participants averaging 73.5 years old.If you think youre too old to bother eating right, a new analysis of nationwide nutrition

Nutrition Facts Makeover Due by Years End

Proposed changes in the Nutrition Facts panel on food packages, originally expected to be proposed late last year

Fructose No Worse for Weight

If youre worried about fructose making you fat, a new Canadian review of more than 40 studies

Foods Targeted for Health Growing in Popularity

An aging US population is increasingly looking to the foods we eat to help maintain health and ward off chronic disease