All Posts by Lynn Truong

Eat This, Not That! analyzed and graded 66 different chain restaurants, and came up with a list of America's Unhealthiest Restaurants. Here are the top ten. [America's Unhealthiest Restaurants, (Yahoo! Health/Men's Health)]

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A new study shows that anger may be linked to sudden cardiac arrest.  Anger is literally bad for your heart.

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Donald R. Davis, a former research associate with the Biochemical Institute at the University of Texas, Austin, claims the average vegetable found in today's supermarket is anywhere from 5% to 40% lower in minerals (including magnesium, iron, calcium and zinc) than those harvested just 50 years ago. [Eating Your Veggies: Not As Good For You?, (Time)]

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The most recent study (published in the The Archives of Internal Medicine) on multivitamins continue to show that there are no special health benefits.  This eight-year study that included 161,808 post-menopausal women found the pills did nothing to prevent common cancers or heart disease. [Multivitamins May Not Cut Cancer Odds (WebMD)]

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For many years, coffee was deemed unhealthy, a bad drug habit, a guilty pleasure.  The main reasoning was its link to osteoporosis and hypertension.  Much of the old coffee research has been debunked, replaced with new studies that show a wide variety of health benefits from the humble cup of joe.

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Sleep is good, but naps are better.

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Not everything we eat gets absorbed and used by our body.  Our digestive process destroys and degrades nutrients before our body can use it.  The amount of nutrients that is actually absorbed in our system is called bioavailability.  Understanding how different foods react with one another can help you get more nutrients from your meal.

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Men and women have different body types, so it makes sense that we should focus on different types of exercises.  To get fit and toned, but keep the long and lean look, personal trainers Kristal Richardson and Tracy Anderson offer tips and alternatives to exercises that should be avoided.

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Dr. Oz was on Oprah the other day, and he said definitively that there is no cure for cellulite or undereye bags. Disappointing indeed.

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Oprah and Dr. Oz turned flaxseed into a celebrity, but there is still a lot of confusion around the different forms it comes in (whole seeds, milled/ground, oil) and its effects (particularly the phytoestrogen properties of lignan).  Here are some flax facts to help sort through the hype.

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