Honey is often praised for a range of health benefits, from soothing a sore throat and helping you get to sleep to healing wounds and lowering risk factors for diabetes and heart disease.

Jillian Kubala, MS, is a registered dietitian based in Westhampton, NY. Jillian uses a unique and personalized approach to help her clients achieve optimal wellness through nutrition and lifestyle ...

Most people are well aware that fibre is a nutrient we want to eat enough of. Fewer know that there are two distinct types: soluble fibre and insoluble fibre. Both play different but equally valuable ...

From the 1950s to 1970s, discovery of enzymes began by identifying new chemical reactions within cell-free extracts, but ...

Interval colorectal cancers (CRCs) were lower when patients' endoscopists had a better sessile serrated lesion detection rate on screening colonoscopies, a large retrospective cohort study showed. ( ...

Jillian Kubala, MS, is a registered dietitian based in Westhampton, NY. Jillian uses a unique and personalized approach to help her clients achieve optimal wellness through nutrition and lifestyle ...

The water chestnut, also known as the Chinese water chestnut, is not really a nut. It’s an aquatic vegetable, often grown underwater in marshy and muddy areas. The grass-like plant is native to Asian ...

This valuable study investigates the effect of noncaloric monosaccharides, sugar substitutes that are commonly used by diabetic patients, on angiogenesis in the zebrafish embryo. The authors show that ...

Dong Liu et al. successfully established a short-term zebrafish model by treating the embryos with high concentrations of monosaccharides, resembling the hyperangiogenic characteristics observed in ...

Researchers have programmed the Nicotiana benthamiana plant, a close relative of tobacco, to produce prebiotic sugars found in human breast milk. Charles Andres via wikimedia commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) ...