Sodium, or simply salt as we typically think of it, is perhaps one of the most maligned nutrients today, due to associations with cardiovascular di...

Do you realize how much and how often we put our faith and trust in other people? You trust that the car coming the other way won’t cross into your...

For years it was held that salt intake has a distinct influence on blood pressure and cardiovascular disease (CVD). In fact, in 2011 the American H...

The last mineral topic we covered dealt with sodium and potassium. Important stuff, this mineral balance. Recall that the amounts of minerals neede...

Like children on a see-saw, some minerals work to balance each other in the body. Almost everything in nature is about balance. In humans and anima...

The Body Mass Index (BMI) is a measure of the relative percentages of fat and muscle mass in the human body, based on a person’s weight and height,...

Using a sufficiently large set of data, the Cochrane Library, a highly respected international collaboration of evidence-based medicine reviews, wa...