1. Diets: Safe Use of Dietary Supplements
(Guide/Diets)

...upplements under a different set of regulations than those covering "conventional" foods and drug products. Click on any of the following questions you might have about supplements to get mo...

2. Diets: Energy for Sale
(Guide/Diets)

  Energy products abound -- in drinks, herbs, bars, and some stranger forms -- goo, anyone? -- but some are better at giving you a lift, and some are bunk. Part 2 of a three-part series. By

3. Allergies: Skin Allergies
(Guide/Seasonal Allergies)

...es are found not only in perfumes, colognes, aftershaves, deodorants, and soaps, but also in numerous other products, often as a mask to camouflage an unpleasant odor. Unscented products may contain f...

4. Vegetarian Diets and Organic Foods
(Guide/Diets)

... Vegans, or total vegetarians, eat only plant foods. They do not eat red meat, poultry, fish, milk products, eggs, or other foods that come from animals, such as honey and gelatin. La...

5. Health and Cooking: What's New on Your Supermarket Shelf?
(Guide/Health and Cooking - Food Recipes)

...oncerns for consumers By Kathleen M. Zelman, MPH Last year's hottest supermarket craze -- low-carb products -- can be found in this year's clearance aisle. In a country obsessed with diet...

6. Health & Cooking Recipes: 10 Tips for Meatless Meals
(Guide/Health and Cooking - Food Recipes)

...ings. The various types of vegetarian diets include: Vegan. Strictest of all, eats only plant products. Lacto-vegetarian. Eats dairy products along with a plant-based diet. ...

7. Diets: 12 Ways to Eat Better for Less
(Guide/Diets)

...hy food costs more, experts say. True, certain foods, like baked chips or reduced-sugar or reduced-fat products, may cost more per ounce. But when you compare the costs of these foods to a servin...

8. Health & Cooking Recipes: Halfway Homemade: Cooking with Convenience Foods
(Guide/Health and Cooking - Food Recipes)

...e way I see it, we have three halfway-homemade options: We can embellish certain helpful supermarket products by adding ingredients to them. We can use shortcut products in our homemade re...

9. Get The Facts About Vegetarian Diets
(Guide/Diets)

... are vegan, lacto, ovo, and lacto-ovo. The vegan, the strictest type of vegetarian, does not eat any animal products. Vegan diets are based on grains, seeds, nuts, legumes, soy, fruits, vegetables, an...

10. Weight Loss: Over-the-Counter and Herbal Remedies for Weight Loss
(Guide/Diets)

... Most often used as a topical product for wound healing, oral forms of aloe are added to herbal weight-loss products. Oral aloe produces a strong cathartic response (producing bowel movements) and man...

11. Diets: Are Artificial Sweeteners Safe?
(Guide/Diets)

...alose (Splenda), and D-Tagatose (Sugaree). And there's a whole host of new ones on the horizon. These products substitute for sugar. For example, they can replace corn syrup, used in many sodas ...

12. Diets: Gluten Intolerance: Against the Grain
(Guide/Diets)

Do wheat products cause intestinal trouble? Try these tips for a gluten-free diet. By Elizabeth M. Ward, RD You suspect pasta, bread, and crackers are making

13. Diets: Hoodia: Lots of Hoopla, Little Science
(Guide/Diets)

...this in turn decreases the appetite." Phytopharm, a U.K.-based company developing hoodia weight loss products with Unilever, the giant food and consumer products company, cites a 2001 study on ...

14. Diets: What's the Buzz About Energy Drinks?
(Guide/Diets)

...-- these are some of the high-powered energy drinks being marketed to young adults. The web sites for these products are full of images of macho lifestyles. They promote beverages containing ingredien...

15. Seasonal Allergies: Living With a Nut Allergy
(Guide/Seasonal Allergies)

...the only way to prevent a reaction. But, it is not always easy to avoid these foods since many unsuspecting products contain nuts. Always check the label ingredients before you use a product. In ...

16. National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases
(Guide/Osteoarthritis)

... names included in this booklet are provided as examples only, and their inclusion does not mean that these products are endorsed by the National Institutes of Health or any other Government agency. A...

17. Health & Cooking Recipes: Some Assembly Required: No-Sweat Summer Meals
(Guide/Health and Cooking - Food Recipes)

...reparing dinner. Sounds like a job for (drum roll, please) ... convenience foods! But many convenience products add a heap of calories, fat grams, and sodium to your daily nutritional totals. Bes...

18. Health and Cooking: Organic Food: Worth the Money?
(Guide/Health and Cooking - Food Recipes)

..., mangos, oils, onions, papaya, pasta, pineapples, potato chips, and sweet peas. Also included are packaged products such as canned vegetables and dried fruit. Organic items not worth buying: Seafoo...

19. Health and Cooking: How to Read a Food Label
(Guide/Health and Cooking - Food Recipes)

... amounts of the ingredient in each serving. For example, "trans-fat free" or "fat-free" products can have only 0.5 mg of trans fats or fat; "cholesterol-free" foods can o...

20. Diets: Alternative Diet Programs Topic Overview
(Guide/Diets)

...llow this diet are allowed to have several ounces of fish or chicken and small amounts of low-fat dairy products each day. The diet encourages eating high-fiber foods like whole grains and fru...