Learn more about the most popular products on store shelves and what the science says about their nutrient content and safety profiles. The USDA estimates that the average American consumes more than ...
Glucocorticoids (sometimes known as steroids) fight inflammation and are used to treat a wide range of inflammatory and autoimmune conditions, including asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, cancers and other ...
The research, led by scientists at Stanford Medicine and the University of California, San Francisco, is part of a larger effort to identify low-risk, low-cost ways to treat one of the most common ...
News Feeding America Urges Bold, Collective Action in Face of Increased Food Insecurity. The number of people living in food insecure households in the United States in 2023 incre ...
The average age of study participants with stage 1 high blood pressure was 49.6 years; 55% self-identified as men, and 45% self-identified as women. Among this group, 65.8% self-identified as white ...
Past studies have suggested that taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs may lower individuals’ risk of developing liver cancer. In a new study of non-statin cholesterol-lowering medications, one ...
Adolescents with severe obesity who received meal-replacement therapy plus financial incentives experienced a greater reduction in body mass index compared to those who received meal replacement ...
April 2016 Issue Soyfoods and Heart Disease By Virginia Messina, MPH, RD Today's Dietitian Vol. 18 No. 4 P. 18 Evidence shows soyfoods can improve heart health due to their rich fatty acid, protein, ...
A new Australian study has identified why a diet rich in magnesium is so important for our health, reducing the risk of DNA damage and chronic degenerative disorders. Scientists from the University of ...
A study led by the Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC) and Fundación SHE, supported by “la Caixa” Foundation, demonstrates that teaching healthy habits through classroom ...