“To improve a memory, consider chocolate,” ran the New York Times headline in October. “A few squares of dark chocolate a day can reduce the risk of death from heart…
Tag: cardiovascular
What are sugar substitutes? Sugar substitutes are sweet substances or products that have no calories or far fewer calories than regular sugar (sucrose). Some are artificial, and some are derived…
Nutrition Action Healthletter spoke on the phone with Bess Dawson-Hughes, the director of the Bone Metabolism Laboratory at the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts…
Take people who are free of cardiovascular disease and ask them what they eat. Then, years later, find out if they’ve had a heart attack or stroke or have high…
“The dairy story can be confusing,” says June Chan, professor of epidemiology & biostatistics and urology at the University of California, San Francisco. She and others followed nearly 4,000 health…
In theory and in some studies, yes, sugar substitutes help people lose weight. In practice, it depends. [text_ad] Companies advertise their artificially sweetened foods as being almost magical weight-loss potions.…
People with more visceral (deep belly) fat have a higher risk of both cardiovascular disease and cancer. [DW] Scientists monitored 3,086 men and women (the average age was 50) in…
Excess salt is harmful, concluded a recent study, while a second study—which had serious shortcomings—suggested that too little salt can also be dangerous. An estimated 1.65 million deaths from cardiovascular…
Advantame What it is: A chemical cousin of aspartame and neotame that is 20,000 times sweeter than sucrose (table sugar). It was approved by the Food and Drug Administration in…
Not everyone is scared of soy. Some people go out of their way to get more. Here’s what soy can—and can’t—do. Menopausal symptoms. “It’s clear that soy and its isoflavones…