What are the health benefits of bok choy?

Find out about the potential health benefits of consuming bok choy, including helping to fight cancer, maintaining bone health and improving immune response to infection.

Why seniors don’t eat

More than half of older adults who visit emergency departments are either malnourished or at risk for malnutrition, but not because of lack of access to health care, critical illness or dementia.

Filler ingredients may be lurking in your cup of coffee

Coffee drinkers beware: Surprise ingredients that are neither sweet nor flavorful may be hiding in your coffee, and growing coffee shortages may increase the chance of having these fillers in your…

Research reveals significant global shortfall in fruit and vegetable consumption

New research published in the September issue of the British Journal of Nutrition highlights a significant shortfall in fruit and vegetable consumption in people’s diets around the world.

What are the health benefits of grapefruit?

Find out about the potential health benefits of grapefruit including boosting weight loss, maintaining healthy blood pressure and heart health and combating free radicals.

The chemical compound contaminating your Friday night glass of wine

We all know what risks our favourite wines and spirits pose to our health but now scientists reveal that the packaging of these drinks may be just as damaging.

Dining at fast food establishments and restaurants linked to consumption of more calories, poorer nutrition

For adults, eating at both fast-food and full-service restaurants is associated with significant increases in the intake of calories, sugar, saturated fat, and sodium, according to a new study.

Breast milk as nutrition and medication for critically ill infants

Human milk is infant food, but for sick, hospitalized babies, it’s also medicine.

Tinnitus less common in women who drink more coffee

A long-term US study of over 65,000 women finds the more coffee women drink, the less likely they are to report symptoms of tinnitus or ringing in the ears.

Some pesticides metabolized by arctic mammals, limiting human exposure

Fortunately, you are not always what you eat – at least in Canada’s Arctic.New research from the University of Guelph reveals that arctic mammals such as caribou can metabolize some current-use…

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