Category: Nutrition

Vitamin B9, or folate, is good for you. In fact, it’s essential for your body to function properly. It plays a key role in the manufacture of blood cells in your bone marrow, it helps produce the molecules DNA and RNA, and it facilitates your body’s use of carbohydrates for energy. Folate in foods If keep reading

Karam, et al. (2023) did an incredible job of comparing seven popular dietary programs for cardiovascular health, and guess which one came out on top? The Mediterranean diet, of course. Their objective was to look at the impact of diet on all-cause mortality, cardiovascular mortality, and specific cardiovascular events... keep reading

Hey guys, if you’re interested in maintaining fun in the bedroom as you transition from midlife into aging, pay attention to what you eat. The food you consume has a definite influence on your sexual performance. At the beginning of 2022 I posted a blog on plant-based diets and men’s health. I want to dig keep reading

Certain foods with cardiac and neurological benefits are also linked with reduced risk of prostate cancer, which is reassuring. However, that good old standby for bone and dental health, calcium, may not be as great for prostate health... keep reading

Globally, prostate cancer is the second-most common cancer (after lung cancer). Of the developed world, PCa is most prevalent in the U.S., Canada, Australia and Europe, but in these countries as in developing countries, the incidence is on the rise. Experts believe dietary factors bear a large share of the blame... keep reading

Here’s something to think about: many studies on healthy foods focus on only one component at a time. For instance, if you want to know if coffee is healthy, you can find many research articles just on coffee. Similarly, if you were curious about soy protein, you’ll have no trouble getting specific information. Etc., etc. keep reading

Is there a universal diet that can add benefits to boost the effectiveness of cancer treatments? The short answer is no, according to an interesting 2020 review of published research on dietary interventions and cancer. Instead of a single dietary plan for all cancers, it appears that a number of diets are better for some keep reading

“Drink your milk, it’s good for your bones.” If your mother was like mine, a glass of milk was set at my place for many meals at home that I can remember. She was right, of course, about milk as a source of calcium necessary for developing bones. What she didn’t know, though, is milk’s keep reading

What is successful aging? According to a 2018 article in Forbes, “The term successful aging was made popular in 1987, when the scientists John Wallis Rowe and Robert Kahn published an influential book entitled Successful Aging. Rowe and Kahn stated that successful aging involved three main factors: (1) being free of disability or disease, (2) keep reading

There is a saying that goes: “A moment on the lips, A lifetime on the hips.” At the risk of stereotyping, I have heard women use this reminder that indulging a sweet-tooth may lead to buying a bigger size next season, but to be honest I can’t recall ever hearing a man say it. With keep reading