Milk: does it do a body good? It’s a question I’ve been asking for years. The answer is contingent upon my mood, cravings, or the article I’ve just read. There are months when the only carton of milk that enters my refrigerator comes not from a cow, but from soybeans, rice, or almonds. Other times of the year I tear through gallons of the real stuff (always organic, but that’s another story).

After losing credibility as a memory enhancer, ginkgo has been reinvented as a supplement that may reduce the risk of ovarian cancer.

Brigham and Women’s Hospital studied 600 women with ovarian cancer and 640 healthy control women and found that those who took ginkgo supplements had a 60 percent lower risk of ovarian cancer.