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Oils are naturally found in certain foods and are commonly used in cooking, baking and frying. Some are used as flavoring and even in place of butter ...

Sugar-free or diet foods, candies, and beverages are often sweetened with sugar substitutes or non-sugar sweeteners. There are different types of suga...

A healthy diet consists of a variety of foods from different sources. When it comes to grains, there are many different types, and equally as many (if...

Water, or H2O, is essential to life. It performs many important functions in your body like flushing out toxins, transporting nutrients and regulating...

If you think avoiding fat all together is a good idea, think again. Research shows that not all fats are created equally when it comes to your health....

For many people, healthy fast food is a contradiction. But according to the National Kidney Foundation, healthy, fast foods do exist, so its not ne...

There are easy ways to decrease the overall amount of fat in your diet while still consuming heart healthy fats. The key is to make these substitution...

Depression has long been associated with end stage kidney disease, but a new study published in this month's American Journal of Kidney Diseases, the ...

Did you know that obesity places you at increased risk for kidney disease? It directly causes diabetes and high blood pressure, two of the leading cau...

If you've gone for your annual physical recently, you're staring at a report that may as well have been written in a foreign language. Which numbers a...