Wellness

Potatoes and Diabetes: It’s Complicated

Does the link between white potatoes and diabetes extend to non-fried potatoes without butter or sour cream? The trouble for…

Do Potatoes Shorten Your Life?

Do potato eaters live longer or shorter lives than non-potato eaters? Is there a link between potato intake and the…

Explore NutritionFacts.org Resources

NutritionFacts.org has a wide range of resources to help you on your journey to a healthier life. Primers Learn More…

Why Cooling Potatoes Lowers Their Glycemic Load

If you eat potatoes when they’re cold, as in potato salad, or chilled and reheated, you can get a nearly…

How to Tame Blood Sugar Spikes after Eating Potatoes

Broccoli, vinegar, and lemon juice are put to the test to blunt the glycemic index of white potatoes. White potatoes…

Which Potato Is the Most Nutritious?

Are yellow-fleshed potatoes healthier than white? And what about the glycoalkaloid toxins? The high glycemic impact of potatoes may increase…

Do Vitamin C Supplements Help Reduce Anxiety?

What are the risks and benefits of using vitamin C for depression and anxiety? “In adults, emerging evidence suggests that…

How to Boost Your Life Expectancy by 12 to 14 Years

What can physicians do to promote healthy, life-extending lifestyle changes? A pivotal paper published in Europe more than a decade…

Peeling Back the Onion Claims

What did randomized, controlled human trials find about the ways we may—or may not—benefit from eating onions? Onions are potentially…

NDMA: A Cancer-Causing Contaminant in Meds and Meat

Billion-dollar drugs have been pulled from the market for less carcinogenic contamination than is found in a single serving of…