Recipe: Roasted Baby Cabbage. Last week I showed you some baby cabbages I bought at the Hollywood Farmers' Market in my post about dropping in on other cities' farmers markets. These little fist-sized gems called out to me so I bought an armful without knowing how I'd cook them.
Supplements That May Be Harmful: Vitamin E supplements, once touted for heart health, have not been found to provide a benefit for people with cardiovascular disease, and could actually be harmful for some heart disease patients, since they could reduce the effectiveness of cholesterol-lowering agents.
March 15, 2005 -- Vitamin E harms more than it helps, a large study shows. Vitamin E is a powerful antioxidant, thought to clear the body of harmful oxygen compounds called free radicals. By soaking up free radicals, researchers hoped that vitamin E would prevent cancer and heart disease. That doesn't happen, finds Eva Lonn, MD, of McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, and colleagues.