In 2008, the Harvard Physician's Health Study, which followed 20,000 physicians for 20 years, found that those eating just a single egg a day or more had significantly higher total mortality risk, meaning eating just one egg a day was...

The formal name will take a while to evolve, but the IVU International Council has just made an historic decision about our major event. The International Vegetarian Union began at a Congress in 1908, in Dresden, Germany, and for about...

Overall it was a fabulous, life-saving, telecast -- but... While watching the show from near Boston during Hurricane Irene, my first thought was that both Irene and the "Sanjay Special" had fallen short of meeting expectations. Thankfully in the...

This week NutritionFacts.org celebrates the upload of its 300th video. Though the site is officially only 9 days old, it launched "preloaded" with 288 videos taken from the last four years of my Latest in Clinical Nutrition DVD series. My primary motivation to move this...

We've known that regular soy consumption appears to both prevent breast cancer—the number one cancer killer of young women—and prolong survival in women battling the dreaded disease, but we haven't understood why. Soybeans naturally contain weakly estrogenic compounds called phytoestrogens...

Taking potato salad to a whole new, very delicious level! Zesty lemon, dill, tangy pickled kohlrabi, fresh crunchy veg and protein packed quinoa all make friends with the potato. The end result? A bigger, better potato salad. Perfect for your...

      Everyone knows that vegans are mellow, peaceable, anaemic, skinny and limp whispering incense waving meditators.  Right?  Anyone else remember the Comedy Company's Vegan Cooking skit?  (Please post it if you can find it.)In real life, we're a...

At the end of our New Zealand summer growing season, I planted some eager tomato volunteers for my first ever experiment with growing tomatoes inside. My winter window tomatoes then... My winter window tomatoes now! I've eaten two of the...

When we find it difficult to forgive others we need to remind ourselves of the truth: We forgive others for our own peace of mind. We forgive others not to make them feel better but to make us feel better....

It’s easy to get resentful when we are of service to others and engage in estimable acts of kindness towards others and do not get a thank you in return or some other form of appreciation we think we deserve....

When I treasure hunt through the medical literature every year for NutritionFacts.org, there are three qualities I find myself using most often to sift the year's nutritional nuggets into video form. Is it groundbreaking? Is it interesting? Is it practical?...

The recipe for this 183-calorie "A Healthier Burger" is the creation of Dr. Preston Maring, an obstetrician/gynecologist and administrator at the Kaiser Oakland Medical Center. Wait a minute! Is our health provider now promoting barbecue burgers made from turkey or...

Leading up to tomorrow's telecast on CNN, Dr. Sanjay Gupta posted a very powerful few paragraphs on the CNN website this week. As I read it, it occured to me that this may very well be the first time that...

A vegan version of the classic appetizer found on tables at parties all over the world! For full recipe and more photos and information, go here on the La Pure Mama blog. Enjoy!...

This soup is the perfect embodiment of summer, while still boasting all the 'warm and fuzzy' features of the most perfect rainy day food: grilled cheese and tomato soup. My critics gave me a rousing two thumbs up. I hope...

Summer is here and the basil is a-growing! I love this pesto because it's easy to make, freezes well and carries the flavor of summer to a t! For full recipe and more photos and information, go here on the...

As excitement builds towards the premiere this Saturday at 8 and 11pm ET of CNN's new documentary The Last Heart Attack—documenting Bill Clinton's attempt to reverse his heart disease through diet—pundits are eager to point out the downsides. Yes, eating...

Those employed in the "system" actually think that they are helping -- but in fact they are only adding to the confusion. On the NBC Evening news (8-22-11), Brian Williams introduced a piece about healthy eating saying "What if...

The CDC published a paper this week in the American Journal of Public Health suggesting that eating healthy, exercising regularly, and avoiding smoking and excessive alcohol intake can add more than a decade to our lives. And the criteria were...

The use of canals for industrial transport took off in Britain in the 18th century, and the village where I live had one built right through the middle of it in 1795. We’re just a small part of more than...