Food & Nutrition

We’ve written about the importance of physical activity in maintaining health (for example here) at various times in the past.

Pumpkin season is here, but it's more than just a fad. There's a bit of science behind why we're so obsessed with pumpkin spice everything!

If you've ever taken a cooking class or, better yet, just cooked chicken once in your life, you would know that it should never be undercooked.

As far back as middle school or even grade school, it was relatively easy to determine which students would grow up to make something of themselves and which would not.

Way back in 2005, we wrote about a survey indicating that Americans' knowledge of some food-related matters was incomplete.

OK, sleep is important — we get that. None of us functions very well when seriously sleep-deprived. But other than that, what health implications might there be if we're not getting adequate zzzz's?

If you read enough phony chemical scares by EWG, NRDC, Joe Mercola and other know-nothings, you may wonder how it is possible that there is a single person left on earth. This is because we are eating so many "deadly" chemicals.

What to believe?

Talk about mixed messages. Vitamin B9, (aka, folic acid or folate) has been atop the "Bipolar News Nielsens" for the past two weeks. And it's all because of a silly scare about formaldehyde.

The Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, Harvard’s outreach into complementary medicine recently announced a partnership