Eating a healthy diet as you age can help you feel better and reduce your risk of chronic diseases. Avoiding added sugar, ...

Even if you never touch the salt shaker, sodium can sneak into your diet in surprising ways. Actually, more than 70% of the sodium Americans eat comes from packaged, prepared and restaurant foods, not ...

Here’s the thing most people get wrong about low sodium eating: they focus on what they can’t have instead of understanding how their body actually works. The average American eats five or more ...

Chips, Doritos, fries, ramen, nachos, pizza, jerky, cheese, pickles—does it seem like your body is constantly begging for ...

Spicy foods might not only add oomph to your meals, but they may be giving your health a boost, too. A recent study published in the American Heart Association's journal "Hypertension" found people ...

Twenty-two bags of crisps a day. That, according to new analysis by the British Heart Foundation (BHF), is the amount of salt the average adult in England is consuming. It’s a stat that’s deliberately ...

“Put down the salt shaker and back away from the table. And don’t even think about going for the chips.” Those are lines you may hear on a TV police drama of the future, when the federal drive to curb ...

You should eat less salt, the government says. A lot less. It won’t be easy. Consumers will need help from food companies if they are going to meet the government’s ambitious new goals, announced ...

Americans may have to get used to life with less salt, as the FDA is drafting voluntary guidelines for the food industry to lower sodium levels in food. As the Associated Press’ Mary Clare Jalonick ...

If you were asked what you could do to live a long and healthy life, what would you say? Most likely, you would mention eating well, exercising, limiting alcohol intake, avoiding smoking and illicit ...