Learn more about the health benefits of vitamin D

• Vitamin D and your health: Breaking old rules, raising new hopes from the Harvard Men's Health Watch, February 2007
• Time for more vitamin D from the Harvard Women's Health Watch, September 2008

Vitamins and Minerals: What You Need to Know

About two out of five Americans take a vitamin or mineral supplement regularly. But is this money well spent? Are you already getting enough of the vitamins and minerals you need from your food? Is it sufficient to take a multivitamin a day, or should you consider adding more of certain vitamins or minerals? Vitamins and Minerals: What You Need to Know delves into what’s proven, what’s promising, and what may be a waste of money. Read more »

Eat, Drink, and Be Healthy

Millions of Americans concerned about healthy eating take their cues from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Guide Pyramid. "That's a shame," says renowned health researcher Dr. Walter C. Willett, "because the USDA Pyramid is wrong... It's wrong because it ignores the evidence that's been carefully assembled over the past 40 years... Indeed, it actually steers you away from foods that can improve your long-term health." Read more »

Healthy Eating: A guide to the new nutrition

Eat real food. That’s the essence of today’s nutrition message. Our knowledge of nutrition has come full circle, back to eating food that is as close as possible to the way nature made it. Based on a solid foundation of current nutrition science, Harvard’s Special Health Report Healthy Eating: A guide to the new nutrition describes how to eat for optimum health. Read more »

Harvard Health Letter

The Harvard Health Letter delivers timely, authoritative health information from one of the world’s most trusted sources – the experts at Harvard Medical School. Read more »