Special Reports

How Green Is Your Salad?

Break out of the iceberg box and discover nutritious lettuces and other healthy greens.If not for lettuce and salads, many Americans would hardly eat any green vegetables at all

Grill Power!

Keep your summer grilling healthy and safe. Warmer weather means the return of backyard barbecue season and time to fire up the grill. Shifting the action outdoors lets you

10 Healthy Ideas Worth Watching

Here at the Tufts Health & Nutrition Letter, were constantly scouring the scientific literature for new findings

Magnesium Moves into the Spotlight

New research suggests this often-overlooked mineral may be more important to your health than previously thought. Magnesium has long been the Rodney Dangerfield of minerals that your body needs to stay

Boning Up on Calcium

With questions being raised about supplements, its time to take a fresh look at getting enough calcium from your diet. Calcium is not only the most abundant mineral in the human body, its also the one Americans spend the most getting more

Comparing Cooking-Oil Choices

A complete guide to the nutrition and smart uses of popular cooking and salad oils. Walking into the vegetable-oil section of your favorite supermarket can easily trigger

Does It Still Pay to Pick Organic?

Despite little difference in nutrients, some organic foods may still make sense.

Makeover Your Meals with 13 Healthy Ideas for 2013

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

Is There Such a Thing as a Healthy Snack?

With snacks now adding up to a fourth daily "meal," are you making healthy choices? Heres help for smarter snacking.

What You Need to Know Now About Multivitamins

Making sense of multivitamins cancer-prevention promise, heart-disease disappointment in recent findings.