Dieting
Garlic and Cancer Prevention
Share The information included in this fact sheet is not to be used as the basis for a health claim. What is garlic?Garlic is a vegetable (Allium sativum) that belongs to the Allium class of bulb-shaped plants, which also inclu...
How Diet and Nutrition Impact a Child’s Learning Ability
Share While the intake of food is vital for proper performance, many of the widely available and popular foods in schools today are actually hindering children’s abilities to learn. Loaded with sugars, caffeine, chemicals, a...
Serve Up Healthy Side Dishes
Share Thanksgiving is practically synonymous with food—and lots of it. Aside from the turkey, there’s candied sweet potatoes, cranberry relish, stuffing (or dressing), green bean casserole and other dishes that aren’t exa...
Stress and Junk Food: A Bad Combination
Share Up there with high cholesterol, high blood pressure and other major risk factors for heart disease, is stress. Studies have shown that anxiety, depression and other negative emotional states may help pave the way for hear...
Cranberries: Think Outside the Can
Share What standard holiday side dish is so nutrient-packed and heart-healthy that it deserves more of a starring role in your meal? The answer: cranberries, which make their appearance October through December. Besides their t...
Low-Fat Milk: It Does a Blood Pressure Good
Share Switching from whole or two-percent milk to skim or one-percent will save you as many as 70 calories. And calorie cutting isn’t the only benefit you may get from choosing the slimmer sip: A recent study suggests that it...
