Got diet milk? In a highly controversial move, the dairy industry wants to market artificially sweetened milk—without any special label to alert consumers. In a petition file[...]
Here’s a new concept: view the holiday party season as an opportunity to eat more vegetables and legumes. I spent a week making Mediterranean vegetable and bean purées[...]
Relax and enjoy your yogurt – it may help you avoid high blood pressure. Results of a 15-year study with 2,000 volunteers revealed that when at least two percent of daily cal[...]
Probiotics—the beneficial microbes colonizing your gut—are the ultimate overachievers: They help keep your digestive and immune systems in shape and even improve your m[...]
New research shows that probiotics -- live microorganisms in foods like yogurt that are good for digestive health -- could also do the heart some good.[...]
Not that it isn't deserved. One medium banana packs about 422 milligrams of potassium, about 11 percent of the 4,700 milligrams adults should aim to get daily. And one study found [...]
As he dug into the mushrooms and yogurt, he talked about a recent study, the Human Microbiome Project, that has deepened the understanding of how our bodies are occupied by “trilli[...]
Wanna lose fat and build muscle? Who doesn’t?! You’ll need some quality, high-fiber carbohydrates (Think fruits, oatmeal, quinoa, sweet potatoes, etc.) to fuel your muscles so you [...]
Todd Klaenhammer: Eat bacteria and get culture. The probiotic concept in theory is simply that when you eat good bacteria at high levels and safe bacteria, that we've been consumin[...]
But if you’re chauffeuring little athletes to and from practice every afternoon, healthy, portable snacks are essential. Check out these 10 snack ideas for your young all-star. [...]