The yogurt aisle isn’t what it used to be. In the last few years, greek yogurt has taken over a sizeable chunk of the refrigerator case, leaving non-greeks to compete…
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“An optimal blood pressure is less than 115 systolic over 75 diastolic,” says Norm Campbell, professor of medicine, community health sciences, and physiology and pharmacology at the University of Calgary…
The frozen food aisles of a supermarket offer many nutritious choices (frozen produce among them) and a wide variety of gut-busting junk foods (full-fat ice cream “novelties,” for example). From…
“Study links drinking fattier milk to lower weight,” reported USA Today in February. “A study by Swedish experts found that, over a 12-year period, middle-aged men who used whole milk,…
If you conjure up visions of pizza, lasagna, fettuccine alfredo, or gyros, think again. [HD] And it’s not what people in the Mediterranean eat today. “If you go to Italy,…
Shrimp scampi, pepperoni pizza, mozzarella sticks, marinara sauce, veal parmigiana, spaghetti and meatballs. Those are some of the “Italian” foods you’d be hard-pressed to find in Italy, according to Fodors.com.…
To lower your risk of kidney disease: • Lose (or don’t gain) excess weight. • Minimize sodium and sugar (sucrose and fructose). • Fill half your plate with vegetables or…
Millions of Americans take drugs to reduce their stomach acid, but that may increase their risk of a vitamin B-12 deficiency. [VS] Researchers compared nearly 26,000 Kaiser Permanente health plan…