LIGHTEN UP - Weighing In On the Weight DebateHigh protein diets became popular because the low fat diet everyone went on in the 1980's was such a miserable failure.At least that's the conventional wisdom used to sell Atkins, South Beach...

The epidemic of obesity rages on, and diabetes--it's evil twin, is also on the rise. Type 2 diabetes, once called adult onset diabetes, has been renamed, because this chronic metabolic disorder is now showing up in young children. Diabetics have...

Some research has suggested that consumption of high-fructose corn syrup, used as a sweetener in a wide variety of foods, may increase the risk of obesity and heart disease. Now, a controlled and randomized study has found that drinks sweetened...

Do you like to look at pictures of "deliciously gross food" such as this cupcake that has been deep fried and then drenched in chocolate syrup and topped off with sprinkles? Well, someone out there does. Within three days of...

The federal agencies that are supposed to safeguard the nation's food have long resisted calls, including those from us, for merging into a single food authority. Amid the peanut-product salmonella outbreak, though, it's hard to imagine how their objections can...

Vitamin D is an effective treatment for prostate cancer in some patients, a UK study suggests.A once daily dose reduced PSA level - an indicator of severity of disease - by as much as half in 20% of patients.There has...

For background, it should be noted that Dr. Mercola's views, when he says that the China Study is "seriously flawed", parallel very closely those of the Weston A Price Foundation (WAPF), a Washington-based agricultural lobbying group. They assert, among other...

Congratulations! You have stumbled on one of the most valuable pages on the Internet. The information in the videos here can change your understanding of health and literally save your life. Each year VegSource puts on its HEALTHY LIFESTYLE EXPO....

America's favorite meat is in a foul state these days. Just a few years ago, chicken became the most produced meat in the United States, yet the sector today is struggling. Pilgrim's Pride, the nation's largest poultry producer, filed...

The epidemic of obesity rages on, and diabetes--it's evil twin, is also on the rise. Type 2 diabetes, once called adult onset diabetes, has been renamed, because this chronic metabolic disorder is now showing up in young children. Diabetics have...

What the mainstream media doesn't want you to know. The recent study that low fat diets don't prevent breast cancer in a large cohort of women now confirms similar results of another large study, the Nurses' Health Study at Harvard....

Sales of our book, "The China Study...", co-authored by me and my son, Tom, have exceeded our expectations. With no formal public relations campaign, no recipes, no menus and many scientific references, we were cautioned by some in the publishing...

Sales of our book, "The China Study...", co-authored by me and my son, Tom, has exceeded our expectations. With no formal public relations campaign, no recipes, no menus and many scientific references, we were cautioned by some in the publishing...

Reviewed by Sandy Laurie One of the most eagerly anticipated books of recent years has been released and The China Study does not disappoint. Packed full of data from the most comprehensive study ever conducted of the relationships between nutrition...

The United States has lagged far behind the rest of the world when it comes to testing for mad cow disease. This is primarily because the USDA is run by people looking out for meat industry interests, rather than the...

I am a Missionary living in Honduras. I was diagnosed with the clinical depression 6 years ago even though I had been struggling with it most of my life. For the last 6 years I have been on either 150mg...

Richard Smith was an editor for the British Medical Journal for 25 years. For the last 13 of those years, he was the editor and chief executive of the BMJ Publishing Group, responsible for the profits of not only the...

Animal agriculture is not just a public health hazard for those that consume meat. In fact, the single worst epidemic in recorded world history, the 1918 influenza pandemic, has been blamed on the livestock industry.1 In that case, the unnatural...

Leading researchers and ecologists call for tax on meat and dairy to reflect true environmental impactWhat, exactly, is the environmental cost of an animal product-based diet?There are probably few people, if any, better qualified to answer this question than David...

In America we currently have an epidemic of colon cancer and diseases of the colon due to several reasons some of which include a poor diet, lack of exercise, dehydration, and emotional stress leading to constipation. Modern life-style has taken...