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Can celery lower your blood pressure?

Q. My blood pressure goes up and down a lot. Sometimes it’s normal, sometimes, borderline high, and sometimes very high. There’s a history of heart disease striking at a young age in my extended family. I’m a 52 year-old woman, just over 5′9″ tall, and I weigh 145, so I’m not overweight. I exercise vigorously […]

10 Meatless Snack and Meals

eDiets readers liked our original meatless meals article, so we came up with more fresh vegetarian ideas for you. This time we consulted Robin Robertson, author of 12 vegetarian cookbooks and a regular contributor to VegNews Magazine and Vegetarian Times. Her latest book “Carb Conscious Vegetarian” (Rodale, 2005) features 150 low-to-moderate-carb vegetarian recipes that contain […]

AP: Nutrition education ineffective

PANORAMA CITY, Calif. The federal government will spend more than $1 billion this year on nutrition education Д fresh carrot and celery snacks, videos of dancing fruit, hundreds of hours of lively lessons about how great you will feel if you eat well.
But an Associated Press review of scientific studies examining 57 such […]

Curry May Fight Cancer

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If you and yours like to be out in the sun, you should always wear protective sun screen. But maybe you […]

“Guiding Stars” steer shoppers to healthier foods

What a cool idea! A grocery store in Maine hired a nutrition advisory board to assign a rating to every food in the store…foods earned from 0 to 3 stars based on a formula that took into account vitamins, minerals, fiber, and whole grains (all plusses), trans fats, saturated fats, cholesterol, and added sugars and […]