For years, there’s been a common notion that you get the best nutritional punch from a few well-publicized foods, such as
blueberries, black beans, and broccoli. Well, they can move over now and make room for a surprising new addition: guava.
Until recently, only limited information has been available about the nutritional composition of tropical fruits—especially the […]

Nothing says you care like the gift of a small watermelon. At least that’s the custom in China, where the offer of this red-fleshed cucurbit is considered a fine way to please a gracious host or ill friend.
Now scientists with the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) have found that there’s far more to this gastronomic gesture […]

Need another healthy reason to drink green tea? Aside from fighting heart disease, cancer, and other diseases, a new study shows that drinking green tea may also fight fat.The study showed that people who drank a bottle of tea fortified with green tea extract every day for three months lost more body fat than those […]

The issue of diet and breast and ovarian cancers has been considered in terms of foods and nutrients, but rarely in terms of dietary patterns. We examined the associations between dietary patterns and breast and ovarian cancers in 2 Italian multicentric case-control studies.
Cases were 2,569 breast cancers and 1,031 ovarian cancers hospitalized in 4 Italian […]