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Fruit and veggies don’t just improve your diet--they could enhance your looks. A new study, done with primarily Caucasian subjects, finds that eating produce heightens red and yellow skin tones, which increases attractiveness.
Read More »Video: Fish and your brain: Benefits of omega-3 fatty acids
New research shows your brain may look and act older than it is if your diet is low in omega-3 fatty acids, acids, which are plentiful in most fish.
Read More »Video: FDA approves controversial diet drug
FDA medical experts are recommending approval of the diet pill Qnexa, despite the drug's potential risky side effects. Dr
Read More »Easiest diets to follow? U.S. News reveals 2012 rankings
Planning to lose weight in the new year? It might not be easy depending on the diet
Read More »Morning snacking may be damaging your diet
Snacking between breakfast and lunch might ding your diet more than snacking at other times of the day, a new study suggests.
Read More »Trainer gains 70 pounds to empathize with overweight
A once-buff Utah personal trainer has deliberately stopped exercising and watching his diet in an effort to empathize with overweight clients.
Read More »Invasive Insects Take Big Cash Bite
Many wooden shipping crates that enter the U.S. contain hungry stowaways: invasive species of insects. Although these pests often dine on trees, they also devour a different resource: money.
Read More »Healthy eating adds $380 to yearly grocery bill, study shows
If you are trying to eat as healthy as the government wants you to, it’s going to cost you: at least $7.28 a week extra, that is.
Read More »The Salt Wars Rage On: A Chat with Nutrition Professor Marion Nestle
Is salt bad for us? In just the past few months researchers have published seemingly contradictory studies showing that excess sodium in the diet leads to heart disease , reduces your blood pressure, or has no effect at all . We called Scientific American advisory board member Marion Nestle , a professor of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health at New York University and the author of Food Politics , to help parse the latest thinking regarding salt and heart health
Read More »Olympian Fitness Featuring Lenda Murray
by Philippe Matthews We’ve heard it before, but we obviously need to hear it again — America is out of shape. According to recent health and fitness studies, over 30% of all adults are considered obese — 20% to 40% over ...
Read More »10 Inspiring Success Stories
May is Small Business Month, and to celebrate we're honoring 31 inspiring stories of small business success. Here's a look at ten of them. Chris Zane is in the experience business
Read More »When, and why, did everyone stop eating gluten?
Celiac disease is an autoimmune disease in which the ingestion of gluten induces enteropathy, or inflammation of the gut, in genetically susceptible individuals. This destruction of the gut means that nutrients cannot be absorbed, leading to a variety of clinical symptoms: anemia due to the lack of iron, atherosclerosis due to the lack of calcium, failure to thrive in children, and GI stress, among others.
Read More »In the Business of Ignoring Diet Fads
Weight Watchers made Erin Baker's business almost overnight, then nearly destroyed it even faster. In 1994 , Erin Baker, the founder and owner of Erin Baker's Wholesome Baked Goods, began making healthy breakfast cookies
Read More »Starbucks free coffee can cost lots of fat, calories – or not
Coffee in a mug could help the environment but hurt your diet
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