Carbohydrates

Advice about eating carbohydrates can be confusing. Here's what you need to know.

Starches from foods like root vegetables and squashes may be just what the doctor ordered.

Avocado eaters have a better diet and a lower risk for metabolic syndrome.

Calorie labels may be less accurate than you think.

Pasta doesn't deserve its bad reputation.

Carnivores with a more varied diet (like trashivore bears) retain their sweet taste buds.

Scheduling meals and snacks around your fitness schedule can make a big difference in how you feel during a workout, and how much you benefit from it afterward.

The ketogenic is already used to control seizures in kids with epilepsy.

There's no debating that a huge Thanksgiving meal with turkey can make you sleepy, but the notion that the drowsiness is caused by the natural sleeping potion tryptophan is a bit deceptive.

A potato commission director's stunt to eat only potatoes for two months reveals good and bad in its nutritional profile.