Nutrition

How eating tomatoes every day may affect your heart and cancer risk

A cheap kitchen staple keeps showing up in major heart and cancer reviews, and the daily amount is smaller than you'd expect.

110 people received specially prepared meals every week: Both blood sugar and blood pressure dropped

A small trial asked whether a weekly box of tailored meals could do the work of a pill.

Vitamin may help protect babies from stress during pregnancy

A new look at prenatal stress and nutrition has researchers pointing to one small daily habit expecting parents can start tomorrow.

A vitamin B5 relative eased psoriasis in 24 patients, and the clue was in cholesterol

What the researchers found inside certain immune cells could change how doctors think about the chronic skin disease.

What happens to your cholesterol and heart when you cut out red meat

Decades of feeding studies have lined up on the same shift, and it tends to show up faster than most people expect.

How eating tomatoes every day may affect your heart and cancer risk

A cheap kitchen staple keeps showing up in major heart and cancer reviews, and the daily amount is smaller than you'd expect.

110 people received specially prepared meals every week: Both blood sugar and blood pressure dropped

A small trial asked whether a weekly box of tailored meals could do the work of a pill.

Vitamin may help protect babies from stress during pregnancy

A new look at prenatal stress and nutrition has researchers pointing to one small daily habit expecting parents can start tomorrow.

A vitamin B5 relative eased psoriasis in 24 patients, and the clue was in cholesterol

What the researchers found inside certain immune cells could change how doctors think about the chronic skin disease.

Nordic diet linked to lower long-term mortality

Diet studies rarely run for two decades, and this one points one way for longevity and another for the liver.

Millions pick diet soda to lose weight. A two-year trial checked if it works

They have been sold as the smart swap for cutting calories, but a long randomized trial just put that promise to the test.

Scientists warn: Your vitamin D levels may already be dropping

The sun your skin leaned on all summer stops carrying its weight this month, and the real low point is still weeks away.

Millions on blood pressure pills skipped a heart-healthy diet

The warning sounded cautious and medical, but the latest trial from Boston says those patients were avoiding the wrong foods.

For your bones after 60, this nutrient may matter more than calcium

Calcium gets most of the credit when the subject is bone loss, but new research hints that something else on your plate may be doing more of the real work.

More than half of young adults put their type 2 diabetes into remission without drugs

The plan behind it was tough, tightly supervised, and worked on patients clinicians often struggle to reach.