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If this year's Halloween is like those past, some 36 million children(1), aged five to thirteen years, are poised to don costumes to go trick-or-treating. And while it is a holiday when Americans focus on sweet treats, registered dietitian Kris Clark, Ph.D., of Pennsylvania State University, says that Halloween is a perfect time to clear up confusion about the role of sweets in the diet and misconceptions about different sweeteners. read more

HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- Losing extra weight is the first step to better health. It's also important to keep those extra pounds from creeping back.

In prior posts, various research activities have been described related to the extent to which the ingestion of a variety of vitamins, minerals, and other nutrients appears to help ameliorate or prevent, or which fails so to do, the ill effects from various toxic exposures (e.g., to arsenic in drinking water) or from various diseases and illnesses. read more

AP - The Food and Drug Administration's assurances that a controversial chemical is safe for use in food containers are badly flawed, an independent panel of scientific advisers concluded in a report released Tuesday.

Reuters - Grapes helped lower blood pressure and improve heart function in lab rats fed an otherwise salty diet, U.S. researchers said on Wednesday.