Today’s article is a continuation of recent one dealing with Food Labels. Don’t you just love questions and answers? There are many parts of a food label: serving size servings per container calories or kilojoules calories or kilojoules from fat total fat saturated fat trans fat cholesterol sodium total carbohydrate dietary Fiber protein What are [...]

For quite some time, it’s been known that the extra roll around one’s middle isn’t just a pleasant little pillow for babies to sit on. Instead, that fat is composed of endocrine-disrupting chemicals that are actually associated with the development of Metabolic Syndrome and Type 2 diabetes. Belgium scientists reported in June 2010 that persistent [...]

There are many parts of a food label: Serving size Servings per container Calories Calories from fat Total fat Saturated fat Trans fat Cholesterol Sodium Total Carbohydrate Dietary Fiber Protein What’s the most important part of the food label? The answer is that it depends. For example, what are the most important parts of the [...]

Perhaps your doctor already has you on aspirin. With the way that the drug is dispensed, you’d expect that aspirin would be listed on the Generally Regarded As Safe List (GRAS). However, that’s just not the case, so don’t let your familiarity with aspirin – because it’s been around for decades and you’ve watched enough [...]