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  • Supplements

Dietary Supplements: Is the Folic Acid in Multivitamins Too Much for You?

  • Posted on August 26, 2014
  • by David Schardt

Folate is a B vitamin that helps cells grow and divide. Folic acid is the form of folate that’s added to foods and supplements. Women need the vitamin early in…

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  • Food Safety

What’s bugging you? Check out this table of potential food safety risks.

  • Posted on August 5, 2014September 22, 2017
  • by NAH Editorial Staff

Vomiting. Diarrhea. Cramps. Food poisoning is no fun. In most cases, your body will heal itself as long as you drink plenty of fluids until the GI problems clear up.…

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  • Food Safety

Learn More about these Dangerous Pathogens that Pose Major Food Safety Risks

  • Posted on July 31, 2014
  • by NAH Editorial Staff

BACILLUS CEREUS: Often grows in foods that aren’t kept at the proper temperature. Less commonly causes vomiting syndrome, which causes minimal diarrhea or abdominal pain and is associated with fried…

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  • Food Safety

Food Safety Alert: Listeria Contamination Prompts Nationwide Fruit Recall

  • Posted on July 24, 2014
  • by NAH Editorial Staff

Have you purchased stone fruit—peaches, plums, nectarines, or pluots—recently? If so, check to make sure they are not part of a recent nation-wide recall of Listeria-contaminated fruit!   On June…

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  • Sugar in Food

The 5 Best and Safest Artificial Sweeteners and a Few to Avoid Completely

  • Posted on June 20, 2014
  • by David Schardt

The best and safest artificial sweeteners are erythritol, xylitol, stevia leaf extracts, neotame, and monk fruit extract—with some caveats: Erythritol: Large amounts (more than about 40 or 50 grams or…

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  • Food Safety

Follow These Simple Tips Regarding Packaged Foods

  • Posted on May 20, 2014
  • by NAH Editorial Staff

The center aisles at a grocery store may offer countless nutritional nightmares, but they generally don’t pose food-safety risks. The irony is inescapable: some of the most highly processed, nutritionally…

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  • Food Safety

Are You Sure You’re Buying Safe Deli Meats?

  • Posted on March 6, 2014
  • by NAH Editorial Staff

The bug to worry about in deli meat, Listeria monocytogenes, may originally come from meat, but it can also live—and thrive—on plastic, on metal, and in water. And once it…

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  • How to Diet

Should You Eat Nuts During Pregnancy?

  • Posted on February 22, 2014
  • by Bonnie Liebman

If you’re not allergic to nuts or peanuts, eating them while you’re pregnant may lower your baby’s risk of having those allergies. [HD] Researchers studied roughly 8,200 children born between…

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