Foods that may provide a health benefit beyond basic nutrition, identified as functional foods, are becoming a key part of everyday life, according to a new article appearing in Food Technology, a publication of the scientific Institute of Food Technologists.
The article noted that the majority of Americans, 69 percent are incorporating foods into a preventative [...]

UCLA.edu - Eat your broccoli! That’s the advice from UCLA researchers who have found that sulforaphane in broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables may hold a key to restoring the body’s immunity, which declines as part of the aging process.
Published in this week’s online edition of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, the nutrigenomics study [...]

American Association for Cancer Research - A concentrated extract of freeze dried broccoli sprouts reduced development of bladder tumors in an animal model by more than half, according to a report in the March 1, 2008 issue of Cancer Research.
This finding reinforces human epidemiologic studies that have suggested that eating cruciferous vegetables like broccoli is [...]

Probiotics, such as yogurt drinks and kefir containing live bacteria, have a tangible effect on the metabolism, according to the results of a new study published January 15, 2008 in the journal Molecular Systems Biology.
The research is the first to look in detail at how probiotics change the biochemistry of bugs known as gut microbes, [...]

UKY.edu - A new scientific review of the most current research shows the link between eating oatmeal and cholesterol reduction to be stronger than when the FDA initially approved the health claim’s appearance on food labels in 1997.
Dr. James W. Anderson, professor of medicine and clinical nutrition at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, [...]

Newswise — Tired of spinach, bored with broccoli? Baylor health experts say there’s a new generation of superfoods that promise to do double or triple-duty when it comes to preventing illness, and you can use some of them for your Thanksgiving meal.
At the top of the list—kiwi. “In a recent study, kiwi was found to [...]