Diet and Nutrition

• 70 and beyond: what you need to eat
• A history of American eating habits
• Are three squares a day the only healthy way?
• Avoiding gas-producing foods
• Balanced diet
• Bring back breakfast
• College students fail to make the nutritional grade
• Cueing into your eating patterns
• Deciphering the Nutrition Facts label: do you really know what you are eating?
• Diet and complexion: medicine and myth
• Diet detectives: spotting sensible diets
• Diet shakes and meal replacements: can they really help you lose weight?
• Do raw food (living food) diets promote good health?
• Eating a diet low in saturated fat, trans fat, and cholesterol
• Eating a diet rich in fruits and vegetables
• Eating a diet moderate in protein-rich foods
• Eating during pregnancy: a labor for Dad, too
• Eating healthfully on a tight budget
• Eating healthy: Tips to make it easier
• Eating well—and safely—during your golden years
• Empty plates for empty nesters
• Food cravings
• Fast food salads: are they really a better choice?
• Food and mood: is there a connection?
• For better health: five easy pieces
• Health nuts: eating nuts may be healthful
• Healthful drinks for kids: the bottles Alice should have picked
• Healthful eating for teens on the run
• Healthful snacking: is it possible?
• Improving nutrition in the elderly
• Is there such a thing as "junk food"?
• Just how much food is on that plate? Understanding portion control
• Limiting potassium in your diet
• Limiting your intake of sugar
• New ways to be "creative" in the kitchen
• Nutrition and menopause
• Nutrition and your brain
• Putting national dietary guidelines to use for you
• Supermarket savvy
• The best diet for you
• The DASH diet
• The ketogenic diet and epilepsy: does it really work?
• The low down on low-carbohydrate diets
• The Mediterranean diet and good health
• The super-sized culture
• The truth behind nutrition folklore
• True or false: eating at night will make you gain weight
• Uncle Sam wants you! to be healthier
• Unlocking the secrets of the food pyramid
• Vegetarian myths

Vitamins, Minerals, and Supplements

• Biotin
• Calcium
• Choline
• Chromium
• Copper
• Folate
• Iodide
• Iron
• Magnesium
• Niacin (vitamin B3)
• Phosphorus
• Potassium
• Riboflavin (vitamin B2)
• Selenium
• Sodium
• Thiamin (vitamin B1)
• Vitamin A
• Vitamin B6
• Vitamin B12
• Vitamin C
• Vitamin D
• Vitamin E
• Vitamin K
• Zinc
• Antioxidants and your health
• Deciphering the nutrition facts label: do you really know what you are eating?
• Dietary reference intakes
• Eat a diet rich in calcium
• Eat a diet rich in vitamin D
• Fish oil and heart health
• Folic acid: a "family values" vitamin
• Good food sources of folate
• Good food sources of iron
• Good food sources of omega-3 fatty acids
• Good food sources of vitamin B6
• Good food sources of vitamin B12
• Limiting potassium in your diet
• Ordinary foods, extraordinary health claims
• Putting national dietary guidelines to use for you
• Soy: can you get too much of a good thing?
• Supplements: to take or not to take, that is the question
• The benefits of fish fat
• The benefits, risks, and uncertainties of soy for lower blood cholesterol
• You say tomato, I say lycopene

Heart Healthy Diet     TOP

• Breakfast is good for your heart
• Balanced diet
• Cholesterol and your heart: where do we stand?
• Decreasing your triglycerides through dietary changes
• Eating a diet low in saturated fat, trans fat, and cholesterol
• Fish oil and heart health
• How much do you know about triglycerides?
• Optimizing your triglycerides
• Trans fats: the bad fat in town

Getting to the Heart of a Healthful Diet
• Choose fats with 2 grams or less saturated fat per serving
• Eat a variety of grain products, including whole grains
• Eat less than 6 grams of salt
• Empty-calorie foods
• Fats
• Getting to the heart of a healthful diet
• Have no more than one alcoholic drink per day if you're a woman and no more than two if you're a man
• Include fat-free and low-fat milk products, fish, legumes (beans), skinless poultry, and lean meats
• Limit foods high in saturated fat, trans fat, and/or cholesterol
• Limit your intake of foods high in calories or low in nutrition
• Protein-rich foods
• Sodium

Weight Loss     TOP

• Achieving and maintaining a healthful weight
• Balanced diet
• Diet shakes and meal replacements: can they really help you lose weight?
• Ghrelin, the hunger hormone: could it be the key to weight loss?
• Internet-based weight loss services: how effective are they?
• Real-life stories of weight loss
• The skinny on sucralose
• The super-sized culture
• True or false: eating at night will make you gain weight

Special Foods and Special Occasions     TOP

• All about shellfish
• Apples: the not-so-forbidden fruit
• Avocado: the misunderstood fruit
• Bulking up on fiber
• Chocolate: food of the gods
• Decreasing your caffeine intake
• Demystifying oil
• Dining with an International Flair: Eating Healthy in Greek, Indian, and Japanese Restaurants
• Drink milk to stay slim?
• Eating healthy while on a cruise
• Eating out: good for the tastebuds, bad for the waistline
• Eating whole grains
• Eggs by design
• Garden vegetables: more healthful than vegetables from the market?
• Globe-trotting papayas: how far has your food traveled?
• Halloween: let them eat candy—but how much?
• Health nuts: eating nuts may be healthful
• Holiday eating: it's about enjoyment, not guilt
• Holiday food: drafting a winning lineup
• "Milk"—not just from cows
• On the road again…but with healthful snacks
• Ordinary foods, extraordinary health claims
• Say cheese!
• Evolution of Spices
• Summertime…and the grilling is easy
• Tater talk
• Thanksgiving, the sequel: making the most of leftovers
• The great pumpkin
• The highs and lows of caffeine
• The tidal wave of bottled water
• The papaya: a little taste of paradise
• The whole scoop on whole versus refined grains
• True or false: an apple a day keeps the doctor away
• True or false: eating turkey makes you drowsy
• Yogurt: the original health food
• You say tomato, I say lycopene

Conditions and Treatments     TOP

• Do you think that you have a food allergy?
• A family's guide to tackling eating disorders
• Anemia: how food and vitamins can help
• Cholesterol and your heart: where do we stand?
• Colon cleansing: don't be misled by the claims
• Do you have prehypertension?
• Eating disorders: when food and weight take control
• Eating well while receiving chemotherapy
• Food allergy—it's nothing to sneeze at
• Homocysteine: another risk factor for heart disease?
• How to beat a hangover
• How much do you know about triglycerides?
• Is grapefruit affecting your medications?
• Mad cow disease revisited: now that it's here, what do we do?
• Nutrition and menopause
• The benefits, risks, and uncertainties of soy for lower blood cholesterol
• The ketogenic diet and epilepsy: does it really work?
• Type 2 diabetes: an adult disease striking children
• Understanding binge eating disorder in men
• What does it really mean to have prediabetes?
• When food doesn't taste good

Food Safety     TOP

• Preventing foodborne illnesses from the farm to the fridge
• Acrylamide: snack food cancer risk or not?
• Added hormones in meat and dairy
• Food additives: friends or foes?
• Food expiration dates: what do they really mean?
• Food safety
• Grillmasters get a food safety lesson
• Guidelines for organic products: what do they mean for you?
• Irradiated food: an overview
• Keep your holiday foods safe
• Mad cow disease revisited: now that it's here, what do we do?
• Olestra: fat-free but not worry-free
• Organically grown food: is itreallya better choice?
• Organic foods: to buy or not to buy?
• Preparing for an emergency: a disaster supply kit
• Safe microwave cooking
• The growing problem of food poisoning: is irradiation the answer?