Peeled banana. While increasing potassium intake is probably a good idea for most older women, there are some people who have too much potassium in their blood, which can be dangerous to the heart.
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Postmenopausal women who...
Fresh fruits and vegetables.
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Eating potassium-rich foods like sweet potatoes, avocados, spinach, beans, bananas -- and even coffee -- could be key to lowering blood pressure, according to Alicia McDonough, PhD, professor of cell and...
Dark chocolate.
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A balanced diet is chocolate in both hands -- a phrase commonly used to justify ones chocolate snacking behavior. A phrase now shown to actually harbor some truth, as the cocoa bean is a...
Those who consumed at least three servings of low-fat dairy a day had a 34 percent greater chance of developing Parkinson's than people who consumed less than one serving per day.
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Consuming at least three servings...
Might it be possible to 'turn off' a food allergy?
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A single treatment giving life-long protection from severe allergies such as asthma could be made possible by immunology research at The University of Queensland.
A team led...
This photograph shows how by reorganizing the genetic combinations of tomato fruit yield increasing mutations, researchers achieved weakly branched flower-bearing shoots that gave higher yield.
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Tomatoes have come a long way from their origins as pea-sized berries due...
50 per cent of baby rice food products still contain an illegal level of inorganic arsenic, say British researchers.
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In January 2016, the EU imposed a maximum limit of inorganic arsenic on manufacturers in a bid...
Vegetables at the market Assorted vegetables at a market.Credit: copyright American Heart Association
Eating a diet lacking in healthy foods and/or high in unhealthy foods was linked to more than 400,000 deaths from heart and blood vessel diseases in 2015,...
Food has a tremendous impact on the environment. Image Credit: Flickr/71430589@N02
Eating healthier food could reduce greenhouse gas emissions, says a new study out of UCSB
You are what you eat, as the saying goes, and while good dietary choices boost...
Consumers are usually unaware of the environmental impacts embodied in the products they purchase - particularly in the case of food, where the main concerns are usually over health or animal welfare.Image credit:Flickr/Ivan Lian
With an estimated 12 million loaves...
A new study suggests that lesser-known gut-health promoters called prebiotics - which serve as food for good bacteria inside the gut -- can also have an impact, improving sleep and buffering the physiological impacts of stress. Image credit: Flickr/Mike...
