We all know that we should eat our vegetables. Lots of vegetables, in a rainbow of colors. The current U.S. Dietary Guidelines recommend 2 1/2 cups of vegetables per day, and 1 1/2 cups of fruit.

Not all inflammation is necessarily the enemy. When people talk about lowering inflammation in the body, they’re referring to the harmful type of inflammation, low-grade chronic inflammation, explains ...

Eating about five servings of fruit and vegetables a day is widely promoted as a key part of a healthy diet. This is because consuming fruit and vegetables is linked to lowering the risk of health ...

Vegetable types included cruciferous, allium (for example, onions, garlic, leeks and shallots), yellow/orange/red, leafy green and legumes. Sonograms were used to measure carotid artery wall thickness ...

Eating more cabbage, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower and broccoli was associated with less carotid artery wall thickness among elderly women. Elderly Australian women who ate more vegetables showed less ...

Type 2 diabetes can seem like a daunting diagnosis. It signals that a person has to make sometimes drastic changes to their lifestyle to ward off the risk of rising blood blood sugar ...