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

Answer : While not even the most avid vitamin D advocate suggests broiling yourself in a tanning booth, it is true that people in northern climes cant get enough sunshine during winter to trigger the bodys natural ability to make vitamin D.

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.

If youre taking selenium supplements in hopes of benefiting from the minerals antioxidant properties and promise of cancer protection, a new study may cause you to rethink. In an analysis of data from a British national nutrition survey, people with the highest selenium levels also had higher levels of unhealthy cholesterol.

Still need a nudge to get going? A quartet of new studies in the Archives of Internal Medicine should provide a scientific shove, out of your easy chair and into an exercise regimen.

After age 70, a few extra pounds may not be so bad. New Australian research adds to the evidence suggesting that the rules about weight and health are different for older people- and that Body Mass Index (BMI) isnt a perfect tool. The study of 9,240 men and women ages 70 to 75 found that being overweight was associated with a 13% lower risk of mortality from all causes. Normal-weight and obese participants had a similar, slightly higher risk of death from all causes.

When it comes to womens heart health, all carbohydrates are not created equal: Consuming too many carbs that quickly boost blood sugar may raise womens risk of heart disease, according to a new Italian study.

Undercover agents from the Government Accountability Office (GAO), posing as elderly customers, recently exposed a host of deceptive and even dangerous marketing practices by sellers of herbs and other supplements. According to a GAO report,

Sweet potatoes are a traditional fall food, often gracing the family Thanksgiving menu. Today, the average American eats about four pounds of sweet potatoes a year, down from an average of 30 pounds in 1920. Given the nutritional density of the affordable, easy-to-prepare sweet potato, our ancestors had the right idea: Sweet potatoes arent just for covering with marshmallows at the holidays.

Since carbohydrates can boost bloodsugar levels, it makes sense that a low-carb eating regimen like the Atkins diet should help ward off diabetes- right? Not so fast, according to a new analysis of two decades of data on 41,410 men. Lawrence de Koning, PhD, of Harvard School of Public Health, and colleagues found that low-carb eating habits were actually associated with a greater risk of developing diabetes.