Carrie Underwood became a vegetarian because she didn't want to eat her pets. The country singer grew up on a farm with lots of animals and decided when she was just 13 she didn't want to feast on meat because...

Unhappy meals: American doctors' TV ad features a corpse holding a hamburger and the line 'I was lovin' it'. McDonald's, which has thrived in the recession, isn't laughing. [scroll down to watch the ad] It is an image to sap...

Indonesia has a population of about 240 million people living on 17,508 islands - a population only exceeded by China and India with more than a billion each, and the USA with 307 million. So what happens there is of major...

The South African government brought hope to grain farmers who are struggling to find alternative markets to dispose of surplus maize following a bumper crop that drove prices down.Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson said South Africa is talking...

  Editor's Note: As more and more people discover that healthy plant-based nutrition is the only medically proven way to prevent and reverse many serious diseases, certain health "experts" -- usually those with something to sell -- are feeling...

Providing surgical treatment for people who are morbidly obese could save British taxpayer-funded health services and the wider economy hundreds of millions of pounds a year, leading surgeons said on Wednesday. In an economic impact assessment of obesity surgery, the...

Animal-based proteins and fats are associated with increased mortality rates, including increased cardiovascular mortality and increased cancer mortality, a new study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine concludes. But low-carbohydrate, high-protein diets composed mostly of plant-based proteins and fats...

A website advertising for a new "cannibal" restaurant in Germany which appealed for humans to donate body parts for cooking has been exposed as a vegetarian hoax. The website for Flime called for diners to "donate any part of their...

Almost half of Americans took at least one prescription drug per month in 2008, an increase of 10 percent over the past decade, a U.S. study found. One of every five children ages 11 or younger took at least one...

Editor's Note: The following is an article by Caldwell Esselstyn, Jr. MD which appears in the current American Journal of Cardiology. To fully grasp how so many smart, right-minded people could get it so wrong, it might help to start...

Making a surprising discovery, researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) have found that cranberry juice cocktail blocked a strain of Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) from beginning the process of infection. The WPI researchers were expanding the scope of previous pioneering...

THOSE who argue that humans need meat in their diets should listen to 105-year-old Blanche Mannix, whose life-long vegetarianism certainly hasn't done her any harm. [the photo is from Blanche's 103rd birthday in 2008] Blanche, originally from Moose Jaw, Canada...