Vitamin D Does Not Help Prevent Colds

Despite past reports that Vitamin D, the sunshine vitamin, helps with upper respiratory tract infections (colds), researchers are now saying it does not help reduce how often or how severely we get colds, according to a new study in JAMA…

Cranberries Help Fight Urinary Tract Infections

Consuming products that contain cranberries seems to be linked to preventing urinary tract infections (UTIs), a common bacterial infection in some people. These are the results of a study published in JAMA’s Archives of Internal Medicine…

Cranberry Juice Better Than Extracts At Fighting Bacterial Infections

With scientific evidence now supporting the age-old wisdom that cranberries, whether in sauce or as juice, prevent urinary tract infections, people have wondered if there was an element of the berry that, if extracted and condensed, perhaps in pill form, would be as effective as drinking the juice or eating cranberry sauce…