High Fiber Diet

Who has time to think about what they're eating? Everyone, especially with the variety of convenient fruit and vegetable choices on the market today. As you experience increased time constraints from jobs, family and other commitments, a healthful diet is...

How many children have you had, and did you wait until after 30 to have the first one? Do you have more than one drink a day? Did you get your period before you were 12? Do you exercise? Have a low-fat, high-fiber diet? Did you breast-feed? Do you work...

Jaylin was a real trooper, learning to go the night without an accident by age 2. But when she turned 3, the Aurora girl started having nighttime accidents again and periodically wet her pants during the day. Though the girl's mom has tried withholding...

Lloyd Autin's learned all about navigating nutrition labels, since his doctor said start eating right.  “I look for the fiber and I look for the sodium and I can see this brand here is very good.”  Lloyd's high-fiber diet seems to be paying...

Question: My daughter is 4-foot-7, and weighs 132 pounds. She also has high blood pressure and reflux. I've been trying to cut back on sugar drinks and fried food. Can you suggest any other changes to her eating plan to help? Answer: It's great that you'...

With all the talk about protein, carbohydrate and fat, it's easy to forget about a very important nutrient — water. Water makes up 55 to 75 percent of a person's body weight and plays a role in everything your body does every day.   Your body loses...

Too Young For Colon Cancer “Stunned. Shocked. Numb.” That’s how Greg Myers describes his reaction when he learned what was causing his pain. “I guess the best way to describe it is numb – it was hard to process it all at one...

Grandma called it roughage. Some nutritionists call it bulk. Whatever name is used, everyone agrees that fiber is a key ingredient to good health. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, fiber intake can play a role in preventing diabetes,...

Dr. Arthur Schatzkin, an epidemiologist who overturned the widely held belief that eating a diet rich in fiber could prevent the recurrence of the polyps that are a forerunner of cancer of the colon, died Jan. 20 at his home in Chevy Chase, Md. He was...