Nutrition Health Center

Poor levels also cause increase in serum parathyroid hormone readings, study says

Study finds chronic disease sufferers gain benefit from calcitriol, an oral form

Study found women with deficiency were more likely to suffer recurrence, die from disease

The cholesterol-lowering drugs showed some benefits in preliminary trial

70 people, many of them young children, were sickened after handling the food, CDC says

Diet. It's at the heart of a healthy life. Learn about tools that can keep your diet heart-healthy.

Watch a video on a new method of liposuction that can help reduce cholesterol.

Watch this video on how high cholesterol can put you at risk for diabetes.

Watch a video on new treatment methods for heart disease.

Learn how different forms of soy can lead to tastier dishes and healthier diets.

It isn't just how much of them you eat that counts, it's which ones. Nutritionally, carbs range from super-healthy to almost useless.

Scientists have done wonders at figuring out ways to control cholesterol. Do you need to start applying them less casually? Or are your numbers low enough to make a cardiologist's day?

Rather than relying simply on the bathroom scale, experts are increasingly urging people to know their BMI, a figure that takes into account not just weight but height to indicate body fat.

For years, people looked up their weight on tables drawn from insurance company statistics. While those are still around, this is a newer, more accurate way to calculate what is truly a healthy weight range for you.