How are raw honey and regular honey different?

Many people believe that raw honey is more healthful than regular honey.

How does being busy affect your lifestyle choices?

New research has found that the busier a person is, the more likely they are to make better, more healthful choices, including diet, exercise, and money.

Scientists develop first comprehensive test to detect genetic modification in food

As the abundance of genetically modified (GM) foods continues to grow, so does the demand for monitoring and labeling them. The genes of GM plants used for food are tweaked to make them more healthful or pest-resistant, but some consumers are wary of such changes.

Researchers maximize broccoli’s cancer-fighting potential

Spraying a plant hormone on broccoli – already one of the planet’s most nutritious foods – boosts its cancer-fighting potential, and researchers say they have new insights on how that works. They published their findings, which could help scientists build an even better, more healthful broccoli, in ACS’ Journal of Agricultural & Food Chemistry…

Improving The Appeal Of Whole Wheat Bread

The key to giving whole wheat bread a more appetizing aroma and taste may lie in controlling the amounts of a single chemical compound that appears in the bread, which nutritionists regard as more healthful than its refined white counterpart…

Study Describes Simple, Inexpensive Program That Improves Healthy Choices In Hospital Cafeteria

A simple program involving color-coded food labeling and adjusting the way food items are positioned in display cases was successful in encouraging more healthful food choices in a large hospital cafeteria. The report from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers will appear in the March American Journal of Public Health and has received early online release…

Extreme Super Fruits – Tropical Blueberries

The first analysis of the healthful antioxidant content of blueberries that grow wild in Mexico, Central and South America concludes that some of these fruits have even more healthful antioxidants than the blueberries – already renowned as “super fruits” – sold throughout the United States…

Walnuts are top nut for heart-healthy antioxidants

A new scientific study positions walnuts in the number one slot among a family of foods that lay claim to being among Mother Nature’s most nearly perfect packaged foods: Tree and ground nuts. A new analysis shows that walnuts have a combination of more healthful antioxidants and higher quality antioxidants than any other nut.