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.

A hidden sugar in red meat may raise your type 2 diabetes risk by 63 percent

Researchers followed nearly 90,000 adults for years and found the danger was not the meat itself.

How almonds may affect your blood pressure if you eat them every day

A daily serving of almonds may affect your blood pressure in several ways, reports Verywell Health.Eating almonds daily may affect your blood pressureScientific...

Your ‘healthy’ food may be less nutritious than the plain version

A new analysis of nearly 150,000 US packaged foods found that products with health claims often trade one problem nutrient for another.

Some of the most trusted supplements for older adults may be linked to cognitive decline

Three separate studies tied the supplements to faster cognitive decline in older adults, though none proves cause.

How much calcium do you really need by age, and are you getting it?

Most US adults fall short of the calcium target that keeps bones intact after 50, and the fix sits on your plate long before it reaches a supplement aisle.

How much salt is too much? The daily limit most Americans are over

The FDA caps most adults at 2,300 mg of sodium a day, yet the average American passes that mark without tasting anything particularly salty.