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  • How to Diet

How to Diet: Can Chocolate Protect your Heart and Brain?

  • Posted on January 29, 2015
  • by Bonnie Liebman

“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…

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  • Sugar in Food

The Basics of Sugar in Food vs Sugar Substitutes

  • Posted on January 1, 2015
  • by Michael F. Jacobson

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…

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  • Supplements

Dietary Supplements: Calcium and Bone Health

  • Posted on December 4, 2014
  • by Bonnie Liebman

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…

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  • Heart and Disease

What to Eat: Chocolate and Cardiovascular Disease

  • Posted on November 25, 2014
  • by David Schardt

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…

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  • How to Diet

How to Diet: Dairy and Prostate Cancer

  • Posted on November 20, 2014
  • by Bonnie Liebman

“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…

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  • Diet and Weight Loss

Do Sugar Substitutes Help with Diet and Weight Loss?

  • Posted on November 15, 2014
  • by Michael F. Jacobson

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.…

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  • Diet and Weight Loss

Diet and Weight Loss: Is there something different about abdominal fat?

  • Posted on October 15, 2014
  • by Bonnie Liebman

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…

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  • Salt in Food

What’s with the Controversy about Salt in Food?

  • Posted on September 27, 2014
  • by Bonnie Liebman

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…

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  • Sugar in Food

Sugar in Food: Sugar Substitutes that are Safe

  • Posted on September 23, 2014
  • by Michael F. Jacobson

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…

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  • How to Diet

How to Diet: What Are the Benefits of Soy?

  • Posted on September 9, 2014
  • by David Schardt

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…

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