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Artificially Sweet: Your Guide to 6 FDA-Approved Sugar Substitutes

Photo: Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Sugar, unfortunately, is not as healthy as it is delicious. With that in mind, it’s still hard to kick the desire to indulge your sweet tooth. For that reason,...

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Don’t Get Duped: Here’s How to Read a Food Label

Photo: Scott Olson / Getty Images Reading a food label is turning into a job worthy of Britain’s Bletchley Park World War II code breakers. OK, so the situation probably isn’t that dire, but with...

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Organic Food: Does the Health Hype Match the Price?

Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Nowadays, we see the word “organic” plastered over items in every supermarket aisle. Often, supermarkets will devote entire sections to these products. The organic food...

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What Consumers Need to Know About Electronic Cigarettes

JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images According to the Economist, the U.S. electronic cigarette market is booming, with sales numbering between $300 to $500 million in 2012. While this statistic pales in...

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Labels Lie: Study Finds Trans Fats Are Hiding in Packaged Foods

Source: Thinkstock Don’t believe everything you read: Although you may cautiously be checking the nutritional labels at the grocery store, it turns out that those facts aren’t always what they seem. As...

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What Is the Dangerous Ingredient Lurking in Your Toothpaste?

If you’re following your dentist’s order on basic oral hygiene, then you’re probably using toothpaste twice a day to keep your teeth, gum and breath clean. But Time.com is reporting news of some...

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Apple Pushes HealthKit Farther With New Partners

Source: Thinkstock Apple made headlines this week with the news that it’s launching its first medical trials of HealthKit in an important partnership with Stanford University and Duke University. These...

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Will the Apple Watch and Other Wearables Need Regulation?

Source: Apple.com Although consumers are warming up to the idea of putting on a smartwatch or a fitness-focused wearable to help them live a healthier lifestyle, Apple and the other tech companies...

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How Nutritional Supplements Could Be Hurting Your Health

Source: Thinkstock Diet and nutrition supplements, or “enhancers,” have been the subject of growing controversy in recent years, particularly as research comes to light on the harmful substances these...

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Glucose App Gives Apple Watch a Healthy Head Start

The wrist-worn wearable that Apple is set to release this April is expected to appeal to a wide variety of users. Apple will offer 34 variants of the device across three distinct collections: Apple...

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The Scary Link Between Muscle-Building Supplements and Cancer

Source: iStock All dietary supplements come with inherent risks because they remain largely unregulated by the FDA. That means the various pills and powders on the market don’t have to back up any of...

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14 Companies Trying to Get You to Buy ‘Miracle’ Cancer Cures

Cancer cells are seen under a microscope. | American Cancer Society/Getty Images Millions of Americans distrust the government. Millions more distrust the health care and pharmaceutical industries. In...

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The Most Common Tricks Food Labels Use to Deceive You

Food labels can be misleading. You might think your food contains healthy ingredients, and then upon further investigation, you find out you’ve been eating junk. If you have trouble making sense of...

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You’ll Wish You Didn’t Read This List of Horrible Things That Food Companies...

If you’re buying processed foods, you likely avoid reading the ingredient label. It usually looks more like a chemistry quiz you’d fail than it does a list of consumable foods. However, you may want to...

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The FDA Won’t Let You Eat These Foods

Just because something is technically edible doesn’t mean we should eat it. And in some cases, it isn’t even legal for us to do so. The FDA has strictly regulated the consumption of certain foods,...

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How Medical Marijuana Medication for Epilepsy Could Change Healthcare in America

Marijuana has become the talk of the nation as former taboos slide to a more common acceptance. Even pharmaceutical companies are starting to get in on the rising trend of cannabis over common...

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Everything You Need to Know About Tarek El Moussa’s Controversial Stem Cell...

Flip or Flop’s Tarek El Moussa’s string of bad health luck continues as he recently suffered another serious back injury while lifting weights at the gym, according to RadarOnline. The injury is so...

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These Everyday Foods Have Been Recalled — Avoid Them at All Costs

When buying groceries, the last thing you may consider is that your food could make you sick. Unfortunately, food recalls happen. Foodsafety.gov states if there’s any reason to believe a food may be...

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Glucose App Gives Apple Watch a Healthy Head Start

The wrist-worn wearable that Apple is set to release this April is expected to appeal to a wide variety of users. Apple will offer 34 variants of the device across three distinct collections: Apple...

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The Possible Link Between Muscle-Building Supplements and Cancer

Man pouring some muscle-building supplements | Source: iStock All dietary supplements come with inherent risks because they remain largely unregulated by the FDA. That means the various pills and...

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