Content tagged with “Peter Jaret”

7 Reasons to Eat and Cook from the Farmers' Market
Stop by my farmers’ market on a Friday morning at the peak of summer and you might hear Lone Oak Ranch’s Marlene...

The Food Cancer Connection

Is Salt the Next Health Focus?

Inflammation: Should You Worry?
The evidence linking elevated cholesterol to heart-disease risk may be rock-solid, but there are still mysteries. One...

Eat. Drink. Be Well.

The Power of Spirits

Can Exercise Override Bad Genes?
As if gene-diet interactions aren’t complicated enough, researchers have uncovered a third crucial player in the mix:...

Heart of the Matter

3 Reasons to Run (or Walk) for Your Life
You’ve heard it before: regular exercise—nothing more strenuous than a brisk half-hour walk most days of the week—...

The Search for the Anti-Aging Diet
“What’s the secret to a long and healthy life?” When I asked my great-grandmother that question on the occasion of her...

The Great Egg Debate
When experts first began to warn about the dangers of high cholesterol, eggs took a beating, along with other high-...

How to Eat for Your DNA

DNA Diets and Custom Fit Foods

Health Benefits of Tea
Some of the strongest evidence of tea’s health benefits comes from studies of heart disease. Scientists have found that...

What the Numbers Mean
If you’re confused by the different cholesterol numbers that your blood test reveals, you’re not alone. The medical...

Statin Nation

7 Super Foods to Improve Cholesterol
The best meal for anyone worried about their cholesterol is a meal low in saturated fat and abundant in fruits and...

How Diet Changed One Woman's Cholesterol Numbers
Several years ago, Alabama pediatrician Laura Sawaya-Cortez thought she knew just about everything there is to know...