Olive oil, a healthy fat, contains disease-preventing antioxidants. Consider substituting other cooking oils and butter with ...

Cod liver oil and other fish oils are often used as dietary supplements because they contain nutrients such as omega-3 fatty acids, vitamin A, and vitamin D. It has been known for some time that these ...

US-based Usana Health Sciences has been granted a US patent covering the extraction of antioxidant-rich compositions from olives and the solid by-products of olive oil production. US-based Usana ...

Scientists at Indiana University (IU) have discovered that a chemical compound found in essential oils improves the healing process in mice when it is topically applied to a skin wound. The team ...

Researchers have found that a component derived from turmeric essential oil, ar-turmerone, and its derivatives act directly on dopaminergic neurons to exert a neuroprotective effect on tissue cultures ...

When highly unsaturated vegetable oils are heated at frying temperature (365 F) for extended periods--or even for half an hour--a highly toxic compound, HNE (4-hydroxy-trans-2-nonenal) forms in the ...

Nearly four years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, traces of dispersants, the chemicals applied to break up the oil, remain along the Gulf coastline, a team of scientists report.