Healthy Lifestyle Package
This 280,000 word package targeting adults is organized under five main topic areas with a focus on healthy lifestyle topics including: exercise and fitness, nutrition, immunizations, screening tests, weight control, sun protection and smoking.
EXERCISE AND FITNESS
NUTRITION
WEIGHT CONTROL
SUN PROTECTION
SMOKING
Nutrition
Healthy Eating: A Guide to the New Nutrition
The Benefits and Risks of Vitamins and Minerals
Breakfast and Your Health
Whole Grains: Why the Fuss?
New Diet Guidelines: A Few Steps Forward, a Few Back
Every five years, the federal government tells us what we should eat to stay healthy. However, these guidelines are published under intense pressure from the food industry.
Angling for Health: Which Fish Should you Eat?
Vegetarianism: Addition by Subtraction
Highlights some of the research findings of the health benefits of meat-free diets, and addresses the risk of deficiencies for vegetarians.
Re-javanation: That Cuppa Joe Might Have Some Health Benefits
New studies suggest coffee may not be bad for you, as generally supposed, and may even have some benefits.
Bid Farewell to an Old but Unhelpful Friend
Contrary to long-held hopes, two large studies have shown vitamin E offers no protection against heart disease or stroke.
Shining a Light on Stealth Fats
As of January 1, 2006, unhealthy trans fats will be labeled on all prepared foods. The change is sparking a makeover of the American diet.
How Qualified are Health Claims for Food?
A discussion of the effect of free speech issues on health claims made by food companies.
Vitamin D: Enjoying its Day in the Sun
New study summing up anticancer research adds to its luster.
HARVARD COMMENTARIES ON HEALTH
- Breakfast: Don't Leave Home Without It
- Low-Carb, High-Protein Diets
- For Health, Pair Fitness with Food
ASK-THE-EXPERT
- Does steaming vegetables such as green beans and broccoli preserve the nutritional value better than sautéing them in olive oil over medium heat?
- I am hearing a great deal about the dangers of microwave ovens causing cancer and destroying nutrients in food. Is there any basis for this concern?
- Does drinking milk increase the production of mucus when you have a cold, or is that an old wives' tale?
INTERACTIVE TOOLS
- Caffeine Quiz
- Chocolate Quiz
- The Flow of Food and a Look at Your GI Tract