Healthy Heart

Americans snack attack is approaching the point where the day becomes just one continuous meal

Discover the nutritional benefits of these tasty plants.

Mushrooms are the only food in the produce aisle that naturally contains vitamin D, the sunshine vitamin thats essential for bone health and associated with a wide range of other possible health benefits.

Getting a good nights sleep is good for more than just feeling perkier the next morning. Studies have shown that adequate sleep contributes to healthier blood pressure, cholesterol and triglyceride levels. On the other hand, people who fall short in sleep hours are more likely to be overweight or obese and to be diagnosed with hypertension.

The US Food and Drug Administration is cracking down on 15 companies trying to cash

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

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

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.

Alarge new Spanish study has found that men who drink alcohol in almost any quantity are nearly one-third less likely to develop coronary heart disease (CHD). The results are also among the first to separate former drinkers from nondrinkers, thereby avoiding what skeptics of previous research dubbed the sick quitters error.

I f you saw the headlines about a recent study-Multivitamins Shield from Heart Attack, Multivitamins Keep Heart Attack at Bay-you may be tempted to join the estimated 75 million Americans who take a daily multivitamin. But not so fast. Even the lead researcher on the new study, Susanne Rautiainen, MSc, of Swedens Karolinska Institute, cautions, The question of whether multivitamins are good for you still remains.