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Dark Chocolate: The key to cardiovascular health?

DarkChocolate

Allison Hartog

10/23/2007

Does Airborne prevent you from getting a cold? Airborne Leslie Nash 10/23/2007
Chocolate: Cure or Comfort? ChocolateCure Mallory Mitchell 10/23/2007
Coffee: Health Drink or Health Hazard? CoffeeHealth Nina Nelson 10/23/2007
Acne: Is Chocolate a Culprit? AcneChocolate Maggie Hawk 10/23/2007
Caffeine’s Effect on Body Fat CaffeineBodyFat Bethany Gonzales 10/23/2007
The Effects of Regular Nut Consumption on Cardiovascular Health NutsHeartHealth Rick Semones 10/23/2007
Energize Your Mind or All in Your Head? Ginseng Wynne Duong 10/23/2007
Caffeine Consumption in Pregnant Women and Its Effects on Infant Health CaffeinePregnant Sarah Russell 10/23/2007
Is Red Wine Good for Your Heart? RedWhiteHeart Virginia Melo 10/23/2007
Soy as a Solution: Heart Disease and Reducing Cholesterol Levels SoyHeart Tinsae Demissie 10/23/2007
Does Green Tea Truly Make People Lose Weight? GreenTea Fatmata Daramy 10/23/2007
The Fifth Taste: Is It Worth The Risks? MSGInducedObesity Cayla Conway 10/23/2007
Can Magnesium Today Keep Diabetes Away? MagnesiumAndDiabetes Jessica Wolff 10/23/2007
Is Breastfeeding the Smart Decision? The Effect of Breastfeeding on Children’s Intelligence Levels BreastfeedingIntelligence Joe Knadler 10/23/2007
Omega-3 Fatty Acids & Cardiovascular Disease: Smells Fishy? SmellsFishy Amy Gallagher 10/23/2007
Fact or Fiction: Do Cranberries Prevent Urinary Tract Infections? Cranberries Morgan Chapman 10/23/2007
       

Green Makes You Lean? The Truth about Green Tea and Weight Loss

GreenTea

Erin Etzel

10/7/2006

The Truth about Cranberry Juice Preventing Urinary Tract Infections (UTI)

Cranberry

Jessica Chandler

10/7/2006

The Effect of Fatty Acids and Their Dietary Ratio on Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder

FattyAcidsADHD

Shih-Chen Liu

10/7/2006

Mamonite: Can Herbal Remedies Increase Bust Size?

Mamonite

Moriah Scarbrough

10/7/2006

Can  Blueberries Cure Cancer?

 Blueberries

 Ashley Wood

10/8/2006 

 Hoodia and weight loss … it can all be summed up with the word Caution

Hoodia

 Melissa Divack

 10/8/2006

 Pomegranate Juice: Elixir of Life?

 Pomegranate

 Philip Marks

10/8/2006 

 Fatty Acids and Heart Health: Anything to the Fishiness?

 FishOil

 Nicole Lee

10/8/2006 

 Tanning Beds and Vitamin D: Trading Cancer for Cancer?

 TanningBeds

 Melissa Ramsey

 10/11/2006

 The Scoop on Coffee and Reducing Risk for Type 2 Diabetes

 CoffeeDiabetes

 Katie Morgan

 10/11/2006

 Herbal Medicine and Cancer

 HerbalMedicine

 Ming-Yee Pang

 10/11/2006

Pickle Juice : Food Fad or Fool-Proof Fix

 PickleJuice

 Emilie Peloubet

 10/11/2006

 To Good To Be True? Can Caffeine Really Get Rid of Cellulite?

 
CelluliteCaffeine

 Minnette Boesel

 10/12/2006

 Essential Fatty Acids: Battle of the "Good Fats"

 EssentialFattyAcids

Austin Healy

10/12/2006

 Cancer Treatment with Cesium Chloride

 CessiumChloride

 Jennifer Gilliam

 10/12/2006

 EDTA Chelation Therapy

 EDTAChelation

 Elizabeth Brown

10/12/2006

 Savvy Soy? An analysis of soy protein and isoflavones

SavvySoy 

 Katie McKillen

10/12/2006

 The Miracle of Milk: Is There a Link Between High-Dairy Diets and Weight Loss?

 Milk

 Caroline Jones

10/12/2006

 PROTEIN SPORTS DRINKS: DO THEY HELP ATHLETES INCREASE ENDURANCE OR RECOVERY??

 ProteinDrinks

 Kate McSpadden

 10/12/2006

 Wheat grass 1 shot of Wheat grass Juice = 1 Kilogram of Vegetables?

 WheatGrass

 Melanie Defaut

 10/12/2006

 The  Brain Game: Can Hydergine Help?  

 Hydergine

 Lee Karlsson

10/13/2006

 Taurine + Energy Drinks: Meant to Be or Doomed?

 Taurine

Sonal Patel 

10/14/2006

 Is it (worth being) in you?

IsItInYou

David Clay

10/13/2006

 A Sea Vegg a day keeps the doctors away

 SeaVegg

Samkha Ganguli

10/13/2006

 Echinacea and the Common Cold

 EchinaceaCold

Ashley Bedford 

10/13/2006

 I’ll Have a Glass Of Red With That…Or Should I?

 GlassOfRed

Jamie Karoff

10/13/2006

 Green Tea and Memory

 MemroyTea

 Colin Compas

 10/13/2006

 A Brief History and Clinical Understanding of the Herbal Enigma: Ginseng

 GinsengHistory

Jeffery Day

10/13/2006

 Peanuts – A new baby food?

 Peanuts

 Disha Kumar

10/13/2006

 Bottled Life

BottledLife

Sarah Floyd

10/13/2006

Pregnancy and Fish: Do We Really Have to Give it Up?

PregnancyAndFish

Courtney Migel

11/12/2005

THE COMMON COLD PLUS HOT SOUP EQUALS LUKEWARM RESULTS HotSoup Jessica Galella 10/13/2006

 HeightMax™ and the Young Athlete Pressures within the Athletic Realm

 HeightMax

Veronica Calvin 

10/13/2006 

Bawls Guarana

bawls

Bobby Castillo

11/14/2005

Trimming the Fat While Enhancing the Mood? The Facts Behind Relacore

relacore

Whitney Whiteside

11/14/2005

Are NyQuil nights more wasted than drunken nights?

NyQuilR

Carolyn Darbin

11/14/2005

Hoodia gordonii: The cure for obesity or just another hoax?

HoodiaGordonii

Liz Paddack

11/14/2005

The Efficacy of  FOCUSfactor

FOCUSfactor

David Zhou

11/14/2005

Grapefruit Seed Extract

GrapefruitSeed

Garnett Holloway

11/15/2005

Is Echanecea the cure for the common cold?

Echanecea

Emily  Wards

11/15/2005

The Skinny on Calcium and Weight Loss

CalciumWeightLoss

Megan Zoffuto

11/15/2005

Splenda: A diabetics winning ticket?

SpendaDiabetes

Anju  Mammen

11/15/2005

Red Wine: The Heart of the Story

RedWine

Abboe Foust

11/15/2005

Energy Gels:  Does the new fad in sports nutrition really improve endurance?

EnergyGels

Christine Gerson

11/15/2005

Zinc and the Common  Cold

ZinCold

Emily Mason

11/15/2005

Caffeine: Good or Bad?

Caffeine

 Saralyn Marshall

11/16/2005

Aspartame

AspartameWebpage

Jonathan Houser

11/16/2005

Ephedrine: Banned by the FDA 2004

EphedrineBanned

Kelley Roseberry

11/16/2005

Effectiveness of Carbohydrate-Protein Sports Drinks on Endurance Performance

SportsDrinks

Marissa Nolan

11/16/2005

IS CALORIE RESTRICTION THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH?

CalorieRestriction

AMANDA SILVA

11/16/2005

St. John’s Wort: Not the Foolproof Miracle Drug

StJohnWort

Ellin Herward

11/16/2005

ECHINACEA A COMMON REMEDY

EchinaceaRemedy

Amber Dixon

11/16/2005

Hydroxycut A dietary supplement  

HydroxyCut

Alexandria N. Duncan

11/16/2005

Bloussant Breast Enhancement Herbal Supplement

Bloussant

Anonymous Student

11/16/2005

Chocolate: Food of the Gods

chocolate

Lovisa Benbow

11/16/2005

Penis enlargement pills

penis

Latreal Frazier

10/22/2003

Xenadrine

xenadrine

Brett Sklaw

10/23/2003

The Gluten and Casein Free Diet: A Dietary Approach for Treatment of Autism

gluten_casein

Allyson Giangiulio

10/23/2003

Fatty Acid Supplementation: A Possible Aid in the Management of ADHD

FattyAcid

Katherine Simpson

10/24/2003

The 7-Day Smoke Away Program: To Use or Not to Use?

smoke away

Katie Cook

10/24/2003

Metabolife: Diet Pill or Death Wish?

metabolife

Katherine Spitz

10/24/2003

Advocare

Advocare

Lindsay Lo Proto

10/24/2003

TRANS FATS AND THE IMPORTANCE TO YOUR HEALTH

transfats

Brian Rayhack

10/25/2003

Phytochemicals: Disease Preventatives

phytochemicals

Aubree Scott

10/25/2003

A summary of the literature on creatine monohydrate

creatine

Chris Pagnani

10/25/2003

Fiber Supplements Affecting Weight Loss

fiber_weight

Megan McFadden

12/2/2002

HERBAL BREAST SUPPLEMENTS

breasts

Katy Serowka

12/2/2002

Human Growth Hormone for Children

HGH_kids

Kelli Gunn

12/2/2002

Calcium

calcium

Kim Perkins

12/2/2002

Echinacea the Purple Coneflower: Fact or Fake?

echin

Dan Brown

11/31/2002

Anti-Oxidant, fountain of youth or Supplemental Disaster?

antioxidants

Sam Maeng

11/31/2002

Diet Fuel

dietfuel

Georgina Antakly

11/31/2002

Does VAXA's "Attend" really treat AD/HD?

Attend

Lauren Kain

11/30/2002

Human Growth Hormone

HGH

Chris Behr

11/27/01

Is St. John’s Wort a safe and effective treatment for depression?

stjohn

Marissa Nolan

11/28/01

Ephedra

Ephedra

Ryan Powers

12/2/01

Ephedrine: Fad or Friend?

Fad or friend

Raj Utreja

12/3/01

Kava: The Alternate Treatment

kava

Monica Trujillo

12/4/01

Cholesterol-Reducing Drugs

cholesterol

Jimmy Hannigan

12/4/01

Pyruvate: The diet supplement of the future?

Pyruvate

Deana Voulters

12/3/97

Blue Green Agae

Algae

Leslie Johnson

12/16/96

Antioxidants - Media hype or wonder drug?

Antioxidant

Coilleen Reilly

12/16/96

Ginseng - what does it really do?

Ginseng

Melissa Schweikhart

12/16/96

The joy of soy

Soy

Meagan McClelland

12/16/96

Essiac - The tea of Life?

Essiac

Samantha Kidwell

12/17/96

The validity of Essiac as a cure for breast cancer

Essiac-2

Georgia Wainger

12/19/96

Ginseng: An Alternative treatment for Menopausal Symptoms

Menospause

Paulette Hurteau

12/17/96

DHEA and the effects of aging

DHEA

Luke Rainwater

12/18/96

Melatonin: The Myths and the Facts

Melatonin

Courtney Ratzburg