About the Author

Daniel Pendick

Daniel Pendick has been a contributing editor and writer for Belvoir Media Group’s Special Health Reports and Online Guides for a decade. He’s also served as executive editor for Harvard Men’s Health Watch and Mt. Sinai’s Focus on Healthy Aging. In previous positions, Pendick co-founded Rutgers Memory Loss & the Brain, served as science writer and blogger for NASA, and worked as associate editor at Astronomy Magazine. He was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT in 1998-99. Pendick also teaches English as a Second Language at Prince George’s Community College in Maryland.

Articles by Daniel Pendick

What’s the Healthiest Cooking Oil?

By Daniel Pendick

Liquid vegetables oils—for example, olive oil and soybean oil—are celebrated as healthy unsaturated fats. Unsaturated fatty acids, when substituted for saturated fats, support general heart health. But for cooking, baking, or dressing salads, what is the healthiest cooking oil? Many people would probably give the answer that olive oil is … Read More

How Long Does a Cough Last?

By Daniel Pendick

Have you ever had a bad chest cold and then, for weeks after, spent much of your day coughing and hacking? After a week or so, you may have wondered, "How long does a cough last?"—and whether something was really wrong. In the meantime, the cough disturbs your sleep and … Read More

Research Sheds Light on Vitamins For Eyesight

By Daniel Pendick

Thanks to the landmark Age-Related Eye Disease Study (AREDS and AREDS2), we know that high-dose vitamins for eyesight supplements containing vitamin C, vitamin E, copper, zinc, and the antioxidant beta-carotene helped slow disease progression in people who were at risk for developing advanced age-related macular degeneration, or AMD. We also … Read More
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