For many people with lactose intolerance, symptoms only appear when undigested lactose gets fermented by certain types of bacteria that live in the co...
Functional foods are still mostly a European concept, even though American firms have been slowly introducing them for years. For years also describes...
An article by the American Institute for Cancer Research on FoodConsumer.org offers a quick tutorial on the multitude of claims that yogurts are makin...
The Metagenomics of the Human Intestinal Tract (MetaHIT) project comes from the European Commission. It's goals are almost as lofty of that of the hum...
Without going into political territory, it's no secret that the military excursions into Afghanistan and Iraq have been plagued with countless errors,...
Ellen Kanner of the McClatchy Newspapers writes a column called The Edgy Veggie. This week's is about foods with added probiotics.There's even a probi...
Lactagen, that most controversial reliever of lactose intolerance symptoms, has announced that it has overhauled its website.Lactagen , a dietary sup...
Probiotics seem to be the functional food darling of the moment, but it seems to me these healthful microbes might really deserve their super star s...
When my son was still a baby, until perhaps about 3, he had severe bouts of atopic dermatitis, also called skin asthma, neurodermitis, or atopic eczem...