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If used with common sense, plastics and food can be a safe combination, experts say. But certain types of plastic are made with chemicals that may cause health problems if they leach into food.

Eating Your Way to Better Health The medical profession has come a long way since Hippocrates first said, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” Perhaps it’s time to take a few steps back. A full third of the 563,000 cancer deaths the American Cancer Society predicts for 1999 will be nutrition-related. […]

Researchers Find a Connection Between Parkinson’s Disease and Pesticides The herbicides and pesticides many people trust enough to spray on their gardens and crops have been increasingly linked to the onset of Parkinson’s Disease (PD), a neurodegenerative disorder that turns the simplest movement into a battle between the brain and the nerves. The first connection […]

Environment and Diet are Factors in Rising Adult-Onset Diabetes Seventeen million Americans have diabetes, and the incidence of new cases has increased 32 percent since 1990, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. People are being diagnosed at younger and younger ages. Experts are still searching for the cause, but most say […]

By cleaning up your diet to get rid of all the nasty stuff—persistent organic pollutants (POPs), saturated fats, additives and food colorings—you may be cutting out the iodine that you need. That doesn’t mean you should go back to eating unhealthy foods, but you need to make sure you have good sources of iodine, since […]

Can Herbal Remedies Keep You From Experiencing Seasonal Misery? 'Tis the season to be merry, especially if you've managed to avoid catching a cold or the flu while those around you have been laid low by the winter crud. Is making it through the cold season unscathed just a matter of good luck, or can […]

Allergy-Fighting Alternatives To Wheat And Rice Offer Many Nutritional Advantages Ann Foster, an avid camper and hiker originally from Arkansas, dreamed for years of moving to the mountains of Colorado. But when that dream finally came true, Foster found herself sidelined with joint pain so severe that it was sometimes a challenge to walk across […]

10 Plant Remedies You Can’t Do Without.

Those white mustaches on the smiling faces of celebrities may be a clever way to promote the “milk does a body good” idea. But there’s nothing amusing about increasing evidence of much higher rates of breast and prostate cancers in people who have elevated levels of Insulin-Like Growth-Factor 1 (IGF-1), the hormone that increases milk […]