Nutrition | Health Savvy | Savvy Cafe
Jan 19 2008
By Danielle Côté
(NC)-The Ingredient List and the Nutrition Facts table on a food package have key information to help you make healthy food choices when you’re in the grocery store. They can tell you what ingredients are used most and what nutrients the product provides.
“Now that all food packages use a standard way to list [...]
(ARA) – Getting the flu can have serious consequences, especially for children. Every year, children in the United States get extremely ill and some die from influenza (“the flu”) and its complications. Richard Kanowitz knows this all too well — he and his wife Alissa lost their 4-year-old daughter, Amanda, to the flu four years [...]
Of the 10 million Americans with osteoporosis, 80 percent are women, and having a mother with osteoporosis puts a daughter particularly at risk for fractures.
Priscilla Turner, 67, of Memphis, Tenn., knows this risk all too well. Her 90-year-old mother, Jewell Fondren, suffers from osteoporosis (a disease that causes bone to become weak and susceptible to [...]