Vitamin C, also known as ascorbic acid, is one of the essential vitamins for good health.  The actual function of the vitamin is to maintain strong connective tissue.  If a person has an inadequate amount over a long period of time they will suffer the deficiency disease called scurvy.  Symptoms are seen in the body [...]

If you are trying to lose weight, looking at labels to find the lowest fat foods may actually be sabotaging your efforts.  Food labels can be quite misleading in an attempt to try to sell more products, and it works!  One of the most falsely held beliefs is that when you find a food that is fat [...]

It seems as though summer had just begun when the “back to school” commercials started to blare from the television, and now that time is upon you yet again. Left with only receipts in your wallet, you will be watching your kids climb onto the bus with their new backpacks full of school supplies and [...]

You know the phrase “sweets for the sweet.” Does the saying apply to you and your kids? It probably does, and probably more than you think. Refined sugar and other artificial sweeteners are items that have infiltrated our diet and continue to be added in almost any number of foods, whether we realize it or [...]