Higher vitamin D intake is recommended for pregnant women and nursing moms in Canada than for those in the United States.

Easily digestible carbohydrates induce obesity and liver disease in a test on rodents.

Coffee and tea appear to keep aging women sharp. Men, not so much.

People's gut microbes digest fiber from coffee in a fermentation process, making beneficial compounds.

Mice eating a diet laced with an estrogen-like constituent of soy display a puzzling variety of changes, some apparently good, some potentially bad.

Mice eating a diet laced with an estrogen-like constituent of soy display a puzzling variety of changes, some apparently good, some potentially bad.

Moderate consumption of beer, wine, or gin lowers blood glucose, perhaps helping to stave off type 2 diabetes and heart disease. (p. 405)

One of soy's ostensibly beneficial constituents may aggravate cardiovascular disease, at least in older women.

One of soy's ostensibly beneficial constituents may aggravate cardiovascular disease, at least in older women.

The more calcium and vitamin D elderly individuals consume, the greater the number and size of lesions that show up in their brains. (p. 381)

When rodents eat the equivalent of a fast-food diet, they develop health problems similar to those seen in the movie Super Size Me.