Americans Getting Too Many Empty Calories From Sugary Drinks

The American Heart Association advises people to consume no more than 36 ounces or about 450 calories from sugary beverages a week, but a new study taking a look at the impact of sugar intake stemming from regular sodas, energy drinks, sports drinks, fruit drinks and sweetened bottled waters, reports that people ages 20 to 39 who drink sugary beverages consume 336 calories a day from them alone…

Overall Health Affected By Viruses In The Human Gut And Their Dynamic Response To Diet

The digestive system is home to a myriad of viruses, but how they are involved in health and disease is poorly understood. In a study published online in Genome Research, researchers have investigated the dynamics of virus populations in the human gut, shedding new light on the gut “virome” and how it differs between people and responds to changes in diet…

Vitamin C May Be Beneficial For Asthmatic Children

Depending on the age of asthmatic children, on their exposure to molds or dampness in their bedroom, and on the severity of their asthma, vitamin C has greater or smaller beneficial effect against asthma, according to a study published in the Clinical and Translational Allergy…

Healthy Eating And Physical Activity Among Preschoolers Could Be Promoted By Child-Care Facilities

Eating and physical activity habits for a lifetime can develop at an early age.

‘Pascalization’ Boosts Healthful Antioxidant Levels In Fruit

Scientists are reporting new evidence that a century-old food preservation technology, finding a new life amid 21st century concerns about food safety and nutrition, more than doubles the levels of certain healthful natural antioxidants in fruit…

Do We Really Want To Know What’s Really In That Luscious Chocolate Aroma?

The mouth-watering aroma of roasted cocoa beans – key ingredient for chocolate – emerges from substances that individually smell like potato chips, cooked meat, peaches, raw beef fat, cooked cabbage, human sweat, earth, cucumber, honey and an improbable palate of other distinctly un-cocoa-like aromas…