Linda Larrowe Bergersen

Five Ways To Make Yogurt Better For You

When you think about it, true yogurt is just milk and bugs. And, really, that's all it should be... the proliferation of probiotic strains of bacteria that grew in a warm bath of milk. But today yogurt has turned into more of...

One of the latest drugs being advertised is for relief of the gout. Its disclaimer states that in taking the drug, "your gout may flare up when you start taking [this drug]; Do not stop taking it. Your healthcare provider may give you other medicines to help prevent your gout...

I just viewed a fascinating video that is informative and eye-opening, and enthusiastically explains and clears up a nutritional quandary that's been in the news lately. The subject is fructose, and the nutritional quandary of late concerns the ever-present high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), as certain manufacturers who use it...

Most of us who watch the food channels are aware of cooking hosts touting EVOO -- extra virgin olive oil, that is. Everywhere we turn it is recommended that it be added to almost everything we eat in order to reap the health benefits of this numero uno oil. But...

Our choices for vitamins can be found readily in such places as the local drugstore, doctors' offices, the internet, and premier health food outlets; a sea of choices that the average person can get lost in, just wondering and deciding what's best. Some consumers just don't give it a thought,...

Corn has been abused, over-used and maligned in so many ways throughout the years, as manufacturers have tried and succeeded in finding various ways to use this long-time inexpensive commodity in their products.

It's more than likely that most every meal eaten throughout the day will contain a form of...

Are you one of those people who believe that eggs will do you harm? It might not be the whole truth. Because of a determination in the 1950s by researchers to come up with a cause of heart disease, and because cholesterol was found to be a component of artery...

Everyone knows how beneficial it is to drink fruit juice every day, right? Wrong. We have been misguided once again.

Forever I drank orange juice for breakfast and then some; I was an orange juice fanatic, honestly believing that it added nutrition to my diet, if nothing else. It...

When I was much younger, I wondered why such foods as pizza and hamburgers were considered junk foods. Hamburgers usually consist of beef, bread, lettuce, tomato, and cheese if you'd like. Pizza is made up of bread, tomato sauce, cheese and possibly sausage or pepperoni. After all, it's known that...

You can trade in your car whenever you see fit, but you can't trade in the most important and unique vehicle you own...your body. We travel on this planet in a highly complex mechanism that none of us can fully explain how it came to be, and we are forever...