This year at the Healthy Lifestyle Expo, I decided to go back to the 19th Century in my family's history and show some photos and film -- yes film, from 1897 -- of the business my great-great-grandfather started in the...

WORLD VEG FESTIVAL 2010   The 11th annual WORLD VEG FESTIVAL October 2 & 3, 2010 presented in the San Francisco County Fair Building, in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco was another great success with around 6,500 attendees over the...

When former President Bill Clinton forsakes burgers for beans, it's a sign that a vegan diet is no longer fringe. Clinton announced in a CNN interview last month that he lost 24 pounds on an almost entirely vegan diet, just...

The first results from the EPIC study provide valuable insights into the influence of food groups and nutrients in gastric cancer, colorectal cancer, lung cancer , breast cancer and prostate cancer, reports the European Journal of Cancer. The fact that...

A new study in the October 28, 2010 issue of the journal Nature suggests that the growth of pancreatic cancer is a slow process and it takes almost 20 years for the disease to develop from a pancreatic cancer cell...

Among the many wise things said by President Abraham Lincoln is this take on happiness: A person will be just about as happy as he makes up his mind to be. That sentiment is somewhat controversial among psychologists and other...

Rev. Heng Sure talks, tells stories, and sings Sunday morning at the Healthy Lifestyle Expo.  Not everyone has children, but everyone has (or had) parents. Here's a tune Heng Sure sang about children showing gratitude to parents. =SCROLL DOWN TO...

Monsanto's herbicide Roundup used on genetically manipulated (GM) Roundup Ready crops is linked to human cell death, birth defects, cancer and miscarriages, says a report released at the European Parliament by an international group of scientists. The report comes at...

All right stop, collaborate and listen. Ice is back with my brand-new invention. Something grabs a hold of me tightly. Veggies on menu, daily and nightly. As much as some people may try, it's hard to dislike Vanilla Ice (a.k.a....

Excerpt:   Buchanan, whose daughter Skye is in fourth-grade at the school, has been working with Fremont for 11 years. He runs a program that introduces students to taste, label-reading and manners. The students shop at a farmers market, prepare...

Bayer knowingly sold contaminated medicine. This is the level of protection you can expect from the FDA, the Congress, and the White House. Another story that came and went and never stuck. Remember this when you're relying on drug companies...

Adherents to a popular fad called the "Paleo diet" say it is based on the fact that early man ate a meat-centered diet, and since cavemen were healthier than people today, then the Paleo diet is the "healthiest" diet for...

Every envrionmental problem in the world is directly tied to animal food production. Eating Animals, Jonathan Safran Foer's first nonfiction book, grew out of his need to justify dietary decisions to his children. A vegetarian and sometime vegan, Foer carefully...

Warning: a little bad NSFW language in this otherwise very true and amusing clip about fast food -- from a bad-ass vegetarian, singer-songwriter, raconteur, stand-up comedian, spoken word artist, Henry Rollins. =SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO=      ...

Happy birthday, John Lennon! Scroll down to watch video of Gov. Jesse Ventura discussing theories on the assassination of John Lennon.       Had he not been murdered by forces unknown, John Lennon would have celebrated his 70th birthday...

I live for the day when I am not shocked when I find out that someone is vegan. Today is not that day. First Mike Tyson. Then Bill Clinton. And now Steve-O, one of the stars of Jackass, a man...

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson first gained attention as projects director at the Freud Archives. Jeffrey's research led him to the conclusion that Freud erred in turning away from his insight that human misery was fueled by childhood sexual abuse. Masson speculated...

An effort in San Francisco to make fast-food meals marketed to children healthier passed a key vote Monday. A committee of the Board of Supervisors gave preliminary approval to a law that would prohibit fast-food restaurants from packaging toys with...

Do you want to eat healthy, but hate to cook? Does cooking take too much time? Cost too much money? Is it too hard? Does your grocery shopping bag come from a drive-through? If the answer to any of these...

As a big, burly lineman on the Cal football team, Richard Fisher can be fairly characterized as a meat-and-potatoes kind of guy, hold the meat. Please, hold the meat. Fisher, 6-foot-2 and 280 pounds, is a rarity in college football:...