Even though most digestive enzyme supplement labels instruct people to take them before meals, it's actually better to take them afterwards. When digestion is functioning normally, there's first an acid phase and then an alkaline phase.

Drinking 1330 bottles of wine? It gives me a hangover just thinking about it. But that's how much you'd have to consume per day to get the sorts of heart-health benefits scientists have pinned on resveratrol, one of the compounds in red wine. Don't put down your corkscrew just yet though…

Just in case there are any lingering doubts, let me dispel the myth once and for all that nuts are bad for you. Yes, they are higher in fat than other snacks like carrot sticks or air- popped popcorn. But, let's be honest here, they're also much more satisfying. Plus, almost all of the fat in nuts is the healthy monounsaturated variety.

When news broke about the supposed prostate cancer "risks" associated with selenium and vitamin E. In fact, the National Cancer Institute of America (NCI) actually halted a study on these two nutrients after researchers claimed that they increased prostate cancer and diabetes risk...