This month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a comprehensive nationwide behavioral study of fruit and vegetable consumption. Only 26 percent of the nation's adults eat vegetables three or more times a day, it concluded. (And no, that...

At 49 and with deteriorating health, Janice Church knew she might not see 50. She had battled ulcerative colitis for years, high cholesterol, numbness like that experienced by stroke victims and severe depression. She was living in Maryland at the...

The bodily benefits of vegetarianism have long been known. Less meat typically means less saturated fat and more antioxidants, which leads to improved heart health. But the impact of vegetarianism on mental functioning is less clear. Nutritionist Bonnie Beezhold at...

Leading American fast food chains, which globally are known for their non-vegetarian offerings, are raking in more moolah from their veggie delights in India following the lead of organised retail supermarkets which tend to avoid stocking non-vegetarian fresh produce items....

Editor's Comment: Welcome to your medical system, where teaching hospital doctors receive millions of dollars to deliver speeches written by drug companies. The bottom line for the US medical industry? Just like everything else in American culture, it's about making...

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Exactly two years ago today, I received a phone call from hell. My financial adviser and close friend, with whom I had invested all of my family's life savings, called to tell me that overnight we had lost 95 percent...

Nutrition and public policy expert Marion Nestle answers readers' questions in this monthly column written exclusively for The Chronicle. E-mail your questions to food@sfchronicle.com, with "Marion Nestle" in the subject line. Q: I may be preaching to the choir...

Impairments to health and physical performance are not primarily a result of aging but of unfavorable lifestyle habits and lack of exercise. This is the position taken by Dieter Leyk and his coauthors in the new issue of Deutsches Ärzteblatt...

Editor's Note: This is what the world of US medicine is like. It's about profits for doctors and medical companies, ripping off Medicare and the taxpayer is part of it. Sure, there are some exceptions here and there, but the...

The news about the potential health dangers of the TSA's naked body scanners just keeps getting worse. An increasing number of doctors and scientists are going public with their warnings about the health implications of subjecting yourself to naked...

A Fed-bailed out burger joint. I'm not lovin' it. Yesterday the long-awaited Fed bailout data was released. For those interested in perusing it, you can find it here in all of its .xls- and .csv-formatted glory. Since 2007, Bernake has...

About 48 of the more than 1,730 California doctors who received money from pharmaceutical companies over the past 21 months have been the subject of disciplinary action, a database compiled by the investigative news organization ProPublica found. While that...

Previously we told you about the plant-based intervention underway in a small rural dairy town in Pennsylvania, involving EarthSave Board member and Good Food Ambassador, Rip Esselstyn. You can read the previous story here. Well recently, Rip returned to Mercersburg...

TSA is out of control. Passengers can now be subject to dangerous and privacy-violating "naked" scanners, and physical "pat downs" which in any other context would constitute sexual assault. England banned these same x-ray machines, but they have been put...

Reducing the amount of salt teens eat by 3 grams per day - that's about 1,200 milligrams or a 1/2  teaspoon - could lead to a 68 percent decrease in the number of teenagers with hypertension and also lower the...

What can a parent do when his or her child refuses to eat anything green and seems to subsist on chicken-fingers and French fries alone? Here are a few tricks of the trade from Hillary Feerick and Jeff Hillenbrand,...

The more obese friends you have, the more likely you are to become obese, a new study suggests. This confirms previous research that gaining weight may be socially contagious. The research also shows that if nothing changes significantly in the...

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...

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...