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I see lots of ads and Web pages touting the benefits of antioxidant vitamins....

A. Alice H. Lichtenstein, DSc, director of the Cardiovascular Nutrition Laboratory at the Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging and executive editor of this...
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Diet and Your Thyroid

The thyroid gland curls around your windpipe just below your Adam’s apple. This butterfly-shaped gland makes and stores hormones that help control heart rate,...

Spring Greens!

What better way to welcome the season than to treat winter-weary palates to the splendor of leafy greens? Greens are packed with vitamins, minerals,...

Move More, More Often to Maintain Weight Loss

Move More, More Often to Maintain Weight Loss A study provided six months of mediated behavior change and dietary counselling for weight loss to relatively...
Many questions remain regarding the usefulness and safety of most dietary supplements. Get the facts before you buy.

Dietary Supplements: What You Need to Know

More than half of American adults take dietary supplements—oral products containing at least one vitamin, mineral, herb or other botanical, amino acid, or enzyme—in...
Consuming nutrients from foods and beverages (including those that have been fortified or enriched) instead of supplements greatly reduces the risk of getting potentially harmful excessive amounts.

Q. How are nutrients in fortified or enriched foods different from nutrients in dietary...

A. Alice H. Lichtenstein, DSC, Gershoff professor of nutrition science and policy at the Friedman School and executive editor of Tufts Health & Nutrition...
Loss of bone density leads to weak, porous bones (like those on the right) that break easily.

Should YOU Worry About Osteoporosis?

In estimated 10 million Americans have osteoporosis, a bone disease that occurs when the body loses calcium from bone faster than it builds new...
We get vitamin D from sun exposure and a few foods (fatty fish, mushrooms, egg yolk, and fortified milk and juices).

Vitamin D and Your Health: Unanswered Questions

If you take supplements in an effort to raise your blood levels of vitamin D, protect your bone health, or boost your immune system,...
Not everything we have heard about Thanksgiving foods is true. Share these facts with your guests!

5 Thanksgiving Feast Myths Busted!

The feast that officially kicks off the holiday season is almost here. Thanksgiving is steeped in the comfort and familiarity of traditional foods—turkey and...
Our plates and glasses are full of ultraprocessed foods (like soda, juice drinks, sugar-sweetened artificially colored yogurt, and all manner of refined-carb goodies) that research now shows are clearly bad for our health.

Recognizing the Health Dangers of Ultraprocessed Foods

For most of human history, food was difficult to come by and humans battled starvation and malnutrition. The development of food processing helped positively...