Why you should also keep an eye on your waist A woman’s waist may better predict her risk of type 2 diabetes than her weight, according to a recent study.…
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When you’re trying to lose weight, what matters more: cutting fat, cutting protein, or cutting carbs? Pounds Lost—which began in 2004—wasn’t the first or the last study to explore that…
All recipes in this post developed by Kate Sherwood, The Healthy Cook. Click here for a printer-friendly version of these recipes. Trying to eat more vegetables, legumes, or tofu? Here…
It didn’t reduce symptoms of acute gastroenteritis among children in a recent, large trial. Can Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG (LGG), the bacteria found in Culturelle and many other probiotics, help curb…
How do we know that saturated fats raise—and unsaturated fats lower—LDL (“bad”) cholesterol, a major risk factor for heart disease? Early observational studies like the Seven Countries Study reported higher…
Here’s a quick primer on the two types of studies on diet and health you’re likely to hear about, and a few of their pros and cons. Observational studies Most…
Here’s how much diet and exercise can lower your risk of developing type 2 diabetes. One out of three adults now have prediabetes. Nine out of ten of them don’t…
As Thanksgiving nears, contaminated turkey has sickened 164 people in 35 states The outbreak of Salmonella Reading, which has been going on for nearly a year, has led to 164 illnesses,…
What a new trial says about the risks A low-dose daily aspirin doesn’t lower the risk of dying or having a heart attack or stroke in healthy older people, a…
In a new study, Swedish researchers compared risk factors in 271,000 people with diabetes and 1,356,000 without the disease. The researchers looked at five risk factors for heart attack and…