Archive for May, 2008

Stanford Getting Healthy Vending Machines

Monday, May 5th, 2008

Stanford University has a new arrangement with YoNaturals to install some healthy vending machines. YoNaturals will place the ‘YoZone’ machines in several buildings on campus through their distributor, Natural Now LLC. The school departments that receive the machines in their buildings will receive a portion of profits from the machines and Natural Now also [...]

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Grapefruit and Your Prescriptions

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

A University of Chicago study found that eating grapefruit could help you get more out of your prescriptions. There’s an enzyme in your liver and intestines called CYP3A that breaks down any drugs you ingest. The enzyme causes less of the medicine to survive your digestive process. But the study found that compounds in grapefruit [...]

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