Jane Velez-Mitchell hosts "Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell," a topical event-driven show with a wide range of viewpoints that airs every night on HLN at 7 p.m. ET. An animal activist, she is a member of the board of Animal Cruelty...

A moment on the lips, forever on the hips? A bad figure is hardly the worst of it. Eating a lot of fat, especially the kind that's in cookies and pastries, can significantly raise the risk of stroke for women...

People who complain they have no time to exercise may soon need another excuse. Some experts say intense exercise sessions could help people squeeze an entire week's workout into less than an hour. Those regimens -- also called interval training...

Uncle Sam points out the problems we have when we buy cheap products from China. "Buy, Buy American Pie" was written and performed by the Capitol Steps. (Hat tip to Jeff Tucker...)  ...

The Poetry of Reality is the fifth installment in the Symphony of Science music video series. It features 12 scientists and science enthusiasts, including Michael Shermer, Jacob Bronowski, Carl Sagan, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, Jill Tarter, Lawrence Krauss, Richard...

EDITOR'S NOTE: Will the animal abusers list include people who eat animals??   SAN FRANCISCO -- California may soon place animal abusers on the same level as sex offenders by listing them in an online registry, complete with their home...

Shock: Last week's headlines about vegetarians being bad for the planet turn out to be completely distorted. Anna Greer looks at how hard the media had to work to get it so deliberately wrong Conservative media around the world flipped...

Sometimes it takes a few shots to get it right. Think about it: you're not done.   Scroll down to see the video....

Hundreds of people taking Avandia, a controversial diabetes medicine, needlessly suffer heart attacks and heart failure each month, according to confidential government reports that recommend the drug be removed from the market. The reports, obtained by The New York Times,...

The debate on genetically modified (GM) brinjal variety continues to generate heat. Former managing director of Monsanto India, Tiruvadi Jagadisan, is the latest to join the critics of Bt brinjal, perhaps the first industry insider to do so. Jagadisan, who...

Cleveland Clinic's CEO Delos Cosgrove MD says that health care costs can't be controlled unless the obesity epidemic is stopped. And they're stopping the epidemic at their hospital. Watch:...

Here it is, the Healthy Lifestyle Expo 2009 DVD set! Watch this 23-minute excerpt and you'll understand why people are saying this was our best Expo yet! Features: John McDougall, Joel Fuhrman, John Robbins, Rip Esselstyn, Jeff Novick, Rory Freedman,...

ULSA, Okla. (AP) -- Motivated by greed, several Arkansas poultrycompanies cut corners when getting rid of thousands of tons of wasteand allowed it to pollute a sensitive watershed, an attorney for thestate argued Thursday.But the 11 companies accused of poisoning...

For Chris Brown, changing her family's diet was not an option. After her husband was diagnosed 18 years ago with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, a cancer of the lymph nodes, the couple needed to do something to regain control. They chose to...

We've said it all along, and the research supports it. Want to avoid dementia? Then avoid meat and dairy. It's so mainstream, it's on the front of CNN.com. Here's an excerpt: Eating a diet rich in healthy fats andlimiting dairy...

Italian state TV has suspended a cooking show host who shocked the nation by saying cat stew is a Tuscan delicacy he swears he has enjoyed many times. RAI TV confirmed on Wednesday that it had suspended Beppe Bigazzi,...

The Green Lifestyle Film Festival (GLFF) was founded with the idea that film could be used to create change for the greater good. Film is a conduit to our psyche and can hold the key for liberation and destruction. Many...

Before surging obesity rates made villains of trans fats and sugars, salt was the big nutritional bad guy in the American diet, linked to hypertension, heart disease and stroke. Then waistlines expanded and expanded some more, and the focus shifted....

Lingering residue from tobacco smoke which clings to upholstery, clothing and the skin releases cancer-causing agents, work in PNAS journal shows. Berkeley scientists in the US ran lab tests and found "substantial levels" of toxins on smoke-exposed material. They say...

Children are blasted with images of non-nutritious foods and beverages when they go to the movies, a new study says.Companies pay to have their products used conspicuously in movies, and items pushed are overwhelmingly low in nutrients and high in...