Honey: Health Benefits, Uses and Risks

Find out about the health benefits of honey and how honey can have an effect on colds and heartburn, alongside ways to incorporate more honey into your diet.

Experts call for healthy eating and physical activity on World Diabetes Day

To coincide with World Diabetes Day, health experts from Europe call for increased focus on healthy eating and exercise to lower diabetes risk.

Eat vanilla yogurt, be happy, says research

Psychological tests to measure emotions around food show that vanilla makes people feel happy, and surprising tastes can change a person’s mood.

Commercial sea salt samples purchased in China contaminated with microplastics

Tiny plastic bits, collectively known as called microplastics, are showing up in bodies of water around the world, and are accumulating in aquatic creatures, including fish and shellfish.

Healthy diet may reduce risk of ovarian cancer in African-American women

A healthy diet may reduce the risk of ovarian cancer in African-American women, according to new data.

In new study, Illinois scientists trace activity of cancer-fighting tomato component

Years of research in University of Illinois scientist John Erdman’s laboratory have demonstrated that lycopene, the bioactive red pigment found in tomatoes, reduces growth of prostate tumors in a…

Eating sweets forms memories that may control eating habits, study finds

Eating sweet foods causes the brain to form a memory of a meal, according to researchers at Georgia State University, Georgia Regents University and Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center.

Dietary potassium may help prevent kidney and heart problems in diabetics

Kidney failure and heart disease are common life-threatening complications of diabetes.

Device-assisted feeding and poor growth in newborns with CHD may lead to poor neurodevelopment

Newborns with a congenital heart defect (CHD) often need advanced medical care to survive, leaving them vulnerable to cognitive delays.

Potassium-rich diets could protect diabetic patients’ kidneys

New research into potassium levels in type 2 diabetics could yield a simple dietary intervention to protect the cardiovascular systems and kidneys of patients.

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