Dynamic duo. (scoop: health fitness nutrition diet supplements personal care environment).
They may give us bad breath, but onions and garlic also protect our bodies from disease. A study in the November 6, 2002 issue of Journal of the National Cancer Institute suggests that diets high in plant foods--notably, allium vegetables in the onion and garlic family--lower the risk of...

Red, red wine. (Scoop: health fitness nutrition diet supplements personal care environment).
French wines are richer in heart-healthy flavonoids than German wines, enabling them to boost the levels of a special enzyme in the body by as much as four times. The enzyme--called endothelial nitric oxide synthase--protects blood vessels from clotting and prevents plaque from building up. German scientists, not patriotic...

Go nuts. (scoop: health fitness nutrition diet supplements personal care environment).
Next time you find yourself lingering near a bowl of mixed nuts, swipe another handful. Harvard University researchers reported in the November 27, 2002 issue of Journal of the American Medical Association that nuts and legumes can boost your health. A study of almost 84,000 women over a 16-year...

Apple a day. (Scoop: health fitness nutrition diet supplements personal care environment).
British scientists have found that children who eat 88 grams of fruit every day--the equivalent of a large apple--are almost 40 percent less likely to develop cancer later in life than children who eat negligible amounts of fruit. Writing in March 2003's Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, the...

Enemy within. (Scoop: health fitness nutrition diet supplements personal care environment).
Researchers at Seattle's Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have found that older women who engage in regular, moderate-intensity exercise can reduce their levels of intra-abdominal fat, an often-overlooked risk factor in cancer and many other chronic diseases. In the largest clinical trial of its kind to date, the results...

Try it ... (Scoop: health fitness nutrition diet supplements personal care environment).
What children haven't been offered, they won't eat. In a study of children's food preferences, University of Tennessee researchers found that the foods children don't like are also foods they weren't offered. Seventeen of the 24 foods kids disliked most intensely were vegetables, as were foods that they "never...

Quorntroversy. (Scoop: health fitness nutrition diet supplements personal care environment).
Ask an American vegetarian about Quorn, and the most likely answer you'll get is: "What's Quorn?" Ask a British vegetarian, and you'll probably get a more enthusiastic response because Quorn (pronounced "kworn") has long been the most popular meat substitute in Britain. Then ask Michael F. Jacobson, executive director...

Big gulp. (scoop: health fitness nutrition diet supplements personal care environment).
Next time the server behind the counter of your favorite fast-food joint or convenience store asks if you want to "super-size" your order, don't do it. Better yet, stay out of such places altogether. Retailers are making a killing these days by pushing larger-sized soft drinks, snack foods and...

Meditate on this. (Scoop: health/fitness/nutrition/diet/supplements/personal care/environment).
Meditation may produce beneficial changes in the brain and strengthen the ability to resist illness, researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison report in the February 2003 issue of Psychosomatic Medicine. In the study, 25 participants were given flu shots at the end of an eight-week meditation training session, and...

Nothing to lose? (Scoop: health fitness nutrition diet supplements personal care environment).
Exercise--whether it results in weight loss or not--still helps lower cholesterol, researchers from Duke University Medical Center have found. Participants in the study of 84 overweight, sedentary adults, published in the November 7, 2002 New England Journal of Medicine, were encouraged to maintain their weight levels, and those assigned...