News tagged with leafy green vegetables


Drinking cup of beetroot juice daily may help lower blood pressure

A cup of beetroot juice a day may help reduce your blood pressure, according to a small study in the American Heart Association journal Hypertension.

Health created Apr 15, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

You can help reduce your colon cancer risk, expert says

(HealthDay)—Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States, but there are ways you can help prevent it, an expert says.

Cancer created Mar 08, 2013 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

CDC ranks foods most likely to make Americans sick

(HealthDay)—Leafy green vegetables are responsible for more foodborne illnesses than any other food, according to a new government report.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jan 30, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study says leafy greens top food poisoning source

(AP)—A government study has fingered leafy green vegetables as the leading source of food poisoning illnesses.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Jan 29, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Ready-to-bake cookie dough not ready-to-eat, study of E. coli outbreak finds

The investigation of a 2009 multistate outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC), an important cause of bacterial gastrointestinal illness, led to a new culprit: ready-to-bake commercial prepackaged cookie ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Dec 09, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Dietary inorganic nitrate may reduce heart dysfunction caused by powerful anti-cancer drug

Virginia Commonwealth University researchers have found that nutrient supplementation, like the kind that is found in leafy greens, spinach and lettuce, may reduce the damage to the heart caused by a powerful anti-cancer ...

Cardiology created May 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0