Samantha Bonar

The equivalent of the amount of sugar found in three cans of soda a day added to a healthy diet could have major toxic effects on the body, according to a new study. While previous studies have found sugar to have detrimental effects on health, they generally used amounts much......

Updated Aug. 13, 2013, 10:15 a.m.: Taylor Farms de Mexico, the company that produced the bagged salad mixes linked to a cyclospora outbreak in at least two states, has suspended its operations, CBS News reports. The company informed the Food and Drug Administration Monday that it has halted all of......

The later you hit the sack, the more likely you are to grab some Jack in the Crack in the morning. That's because lack of sleep compromises high-level brain functioning, according to a new study published August 6 in Nature Communications. The research found that sleep deprivation leads to brain......

Chocolate -- it's good for your libido, your heart and, God knows, your mood -- but your brain? A new study from Harvard suggests that older people could improve their cognitive function and brain health by drinking two cups of hot chocolate a day, according to Forbes. We like that......

We wish this was a story about how leaving the office for lunch makes you a more productive worker. Unfortunately, it's not. Quite the opposite. A new study by German scientists at Humboldt University in Berlin instead found that if you leave the workplace for a little sausage and sauerkraut......

The Food and Drug Administration has finally set a standard for what "gluten-free" means on food packaging. Food labeled gluten-free must contain less than 20 parts per million of gluten, a protein found in wheat, rye and barley. Product manufacturers such as General Mills, which has a line of gluten-free......

Under new rules proposed by the Food and Drug Administration in response to "our complex global food supply system," it will be up to food importers, not the federal government, to make sure their products are safe. For the first time, U.S. importers would have a clearly defined responsibility to......

A Kansas meat processor has recalled 50,000 pounds of ground beef, CNN reports. The National Beef Packing Co. products, which were shipped nationwide, may be contaminated with E. coli, the U.S. Department of Agriculture says. There have been no reported illnesses. Liberal, Kan.-based National Beef announced the recall in an......

It's a fact Swedes and Seattlites have long depended on: Coffee makes you less likely to kill yourself, a new study has confirmed. Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health say that adults who drink two to four cups of coffee a day have a 50 percent lower risk......

Some people think hot sauces from south of the border contain a little extra something. Unfortunately, in many cases that extra ingredient is lead, according to a new study reported by Food Safety News. Researchers at the University of Nevada Las Vegas tested 25 bottles of imported hot sauces from......