Barbara Intermill

There’s more than one way to peel an orange. Just make sure you eat it.

Sports nutrition experts generally recommend we replace sodium and other electrolytes along with fluids after heavy exercise that lasts an hour or more (marathon runners, for example).

Unfortunately, sugar has a bad reputation simply because we eat way too much of it.

American children aren’t the only ones who love sweets. A 2021 article in the Journal of Sensory Studies states that a child’s “heightened preference for sweetness is universal across cultures.”…

So we pick an ear of corn and eat the kernels off the cob, right?

Experts at the Linus Pauling Institute sponsored an extremely interesting presentation of vitamin C this week. You may remember Dr. Pauling, a brilliant and sometimes controversial chemist who publ…

According to experts who recently attended the “Facts, Not Fear” farm tour in the apple-producing region of the Pacific Northwest, all apples —those grown both organically and conventio…

Researchers in Poland observed that people who ate at least one apple a day had a lower risk for developing colon cancer than those who did not.

Nutritionally, citrus fruit — oranges, lemons, limes, mandarins, tangelos and grapefruit — are one of nature’s best sources of vitamin C, a potent antioxidant. Antioxidants protect our cells from t…

Like a well-tuned football team, a strong immune system needs the right balance of individual nutrients working together.