This is the first in a series of short articles intended to help you better understand your nutrition options.
By Donna Paquette
Today it seems we need to have a degree in nutrition in order to decode the content of a product. Does anyone control what’s placed on a label? Who decides the difference between whole and [...]

I suspect that for the vast majority of Americans, we all talk a good game about civic service but as the saying goes, we don’t “walk the walk” as often as we could. This is a story about one person’s experience at helping.
My wife and I have a 21 year old son in the house [...]

The following post was written by Dr. Stephen R. Smith, professor of family medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
One way to thank someone for giving you a gift is to say; “I’m obliged.” That’s exactly what drug companies want doctors to say for the gifts, large and small, that they bestow [...]

Cooked grains
have been
a food staple
for over
5000 years.

Whole grains or foods made from them contain all the essential parts and naturally-occurring nutrients of the entire grain seed. Their health effects have been evident for centuries. Indeed, when Hippocrates, the father of medicine, wrote “Let food by thy medicine and let medicine be thy food,” he was [...]