Samantha Bonar

Do you want an alarm clock that assaults you with a puff of bacon scent? Oscar Mayer has an app for that. Better known for it's bologna and hot dogs, the "meat" company has introduced its Wake Up & Smell the Bacon device,  which transforms your iPhone into a bacon-scented alarm......

Remember how everybody freaked out last month because they suddenly realized Subway was using a chemical also found in yoga mats in its bread? Well, guess what? Subway may have been unfairly singled out, as the chemical in question, azodicarbonamide (ADA), is included in hundreds of food products. Subway quickly......

All is not rainbows and unicorns in Candyland. Some things that seem sweet on the outside actually have an insidiously bitter filling. To wit: For a limited time, See's Candies is offering St. Patrick's Day Potatoes: "Our famous See's Divinity filling is hand-shaped and enrobed in creamy milk chocolate ........

Now that we know we can't eat meat or dairy, here's another food category to scratch from the menu: sugar. In new draft guidelines announced March 5, the World Health Organization says your daily sugar intake should be only 5 percent of your total calories - half of what the agency previously recommended......

There is so much to be bummed out about in middle age - your lost youth, lost hopes, lost hair, lost waistline, lost keys - so here's just what we need, one more thing: middle-aged people who eat a diet high in meat and cheese are nearly twice as likely......

Forget goji, acai, aronia, maqui, noni and all those other so-called superfruits. The most powerful health-boosting berry of them all may just be the humble ol' strawberry. Packed with essential nutrients and potent phytochemicals, strawberries may be a beneficial force in lowering cholesterol, according to researchers from Università Politecnica delle......

What are the most important things to take with you to the afterlife? Gold of course, and precious oils, and don't forget a couple of your favorite servants and maybe a beloved wife or two. But you would really be lost (and hungry) on the other side without cheese. Archeologists......

Ever look at the nutrition label on a drink bottle and be annoyed to see "serving size: 2"? It's one bottle! A new overhaul of nutrition labels by the Food and Drug Administration will change that, and a whole lot more. If approved, the proposed new nutrition labels on packaged......

Ads touting junk food and soda would be banned in schools under new rules announced Tuesday, Feb. 25, by the Obama administration. That means the scoreboards in high school gyms won't be allowed to advertise Coca-Cola, for example, but could advertise Diet Coke or Dasani water. The same rules, which......