Samantha Bonar

A new Harvard study says drinking as little as three cups of coffee a day could contribute to glaucoma-related vision loss, Medical Daily reports. The study, published in the journal Investigative Ophthalmology and Visual Science, looked at the coffee habits of 79,120 women and 42,050 men (121,170 total participants). The......

We all know that bees are attracted to colorful flowers -- but colorful candy shells that melt in your mouth, not in your hand? Bees are irritating normally sanguine French beekeepers because the insects are gathering sugar from a nearby M&M waste plant and coloring their honey in rainbow shades......

The peanut butter recall that began innocently enough with one Trader Joe's brand has expanded exponentially and now includes everything from crackers and cookies to gelato and tahini, according to the Food and Drug Administration. Almost 300 products have now been recalled in what the FDA is calling a "fast-moving......

Popcorn manufacturer Popcorn, Indiana has issued a voluntary recall of several ready-to-eat bags of popcorn due to possible contamination with that very nasty bacteria Listeria, Fox News reports. According to the company's product recall site, bags that were distributed "to various retailers" and sold over the Internet on or after......

Raise your hand if you'd like to be paid to eat junk food every day. In a study that is proving popular with participants, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are paying people to eat an extra 1,000-calorie fast food meal every day for three months,......

Salmonella has nothing to do with salmon. Until now. Smoked salmon tainted with the bacteria has sickened hundreds of people in the Netherlands and the United States, sparking a major recall, the Associated Press reports. (Fascinating fact: The genus Salmonella was named after Daniel Elmer Salmon, an American veterinary pathologist,......

In what some might see as a disturbing moove move in the whole Frankenfood trend, cows in New Zealand have been genetically engineered to produce hypoallergenic milk. The target consumer is the 1.3 million children with milk allergies (which apparently includes nauseous young Justin Bieber). (What kids would really like......

Why are Americans so damn fat, and what can be done about it? A newly launched nonprofit organization, the Nutrition Science Initiative, is trying to find the answer to that mind-boggler. NuSI's goal is to "create a Manhattan Project-like effort" to solve the problem of obesity in the U.S. by......

People who ate yogurt once every three days had significantly lower blood pressure than those who didn't eat yogurt, according to a new study reported in MedPage Today. In fact, they were 31% less likely to develop high blood pressure than those who ate no yogurt at all, Huifen Wang,......

Update, 9/24 1:12 p.m.: The maker of Trader Joe's peanut butter tied to a multi-state salmonella outbreak has pulled 76 additional peanut and almond products because of possible contamination, NBC News reports. California is among the 18 states that have reported infections of the rare and nasty strain, Salmonella bredeney......