This photo below has been extensively passed around the web today, and for good reason: it's a peak into the rarely-seen world of mechanically separated meat, or Advanced Meat Recovery (AMR). Fooducate writes: Folks, this is mechanically separated chicken, an...

97-year-old Jack LaLanne knows a few things. Back years ago, he gave his list of 10 points for healthy living.  Good stuff. =Scroll Down for Video=  ...

If you adjust for inflation and income, Americans have never spent less on food than they have in recent years. And yet many feel we've also never paid such a high price. U.S. Department of Agriculture figures show the average...

SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO Last week EarthSave board member Rip Esselstyn and EarthSave CEO Jeff Nelson traveled to the small rural town of Mercersburg, PA, to undertake a unique project.  Rip had been invited by local Mercersburg physician, Liz George,...

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...

With 14 siblings screaming at one another, mediator Carolyn Miller Parr threatened to summon a security guard at D.C. Superior Court. That lowered the temperature in the room. When the family returned for a second session, disagreements escalated again. This...

A moment on the lips can actually mean a lifetime on the hips, according to Swedish researchers, who found that binging on food seems to have a long term effect on body weight. People who gorged on fast food for...

SCROLL DOWN FOR VIDEO EarthSave's June 20 Meals For Health party in Beverly Hills, California -- was a huge success! Now you can own it on DVD, while helping support EarthSave. It was a truly magical evening -- great food,...

The staples of Vegas cuisine are so famous they're part of nearly every punchline about the city: 99-cent shrimp cocktails, midnight $2.99 steaks, the gargantuan feeding frenzy known as the all-you-can-eat buffet. Now we may have to add to that...

Incentives and protections for industry encourage development of many drugs with few new benefits over existing pharmaceuticals, but with risk of serious harm to users ATLANTA -- The pharmaceutical industry is a "market for lemons," a market in which the...

Fast food outlets should hand out free cholesterol-lowering statin drugs to their customers to "neutralize" the heart risks of eating fatty foods like burgers and fries, British scientists suggested on Thursday. But a few experts say you might want to...

Lunch was Greek cabbage salad sprinkled with pumpkin seeds, Ezekiel sprouted wraps, walnuts, raw almonds and a glass of hot purified water. The setting for lunch was a renovated iron-front building with a sign out front: "Best of Health, Nutrition...

Last year, drinks sold by Coca-Cola in the UK were found to contain pesticides up to 300 times the level allowed in tap or bottled water. Researchers tested 102 cans and bottles of soft drinks bought from 15 countries, for...

Tongues are wagging -- with some salivating and others going "yuck" -- over news reports that Chelsea Clinton's super-secret upstate New York wedding to Marc Mezvinsky this Saturday will feature a vegan menu and a gluten-free cake. The couple will...

Summer is the time for a new adventure, a time to try something different. This month the VegSource crew invaded Kona.  You may have previously watched how we saved a fish our first day in town. Now you can watch...

Years of being overweight not only contribute to health problems but also to a person's economic woes, new research suggests. Adults who have been overweight since high school are more likely to be unemployed or on welfare than those...

Someone once said that it's a rite of passage to become a vegetarian while in college. But for some Stanford students, this switch doesn't last only for a couple of years - it becomes a lifestyle change with long-lasting effects...

People who learn how to meditate using Buddhist techniques not only may find a bit of peace in life, but also can improve their attention and focus a new study shows. Psychologist Katherine A. MacLean, PhD, and other researchers, signed...

The European Union has approved a new chewable form of cholesterol blockbuster Lipitor for children 10 and up with high levels of bad cholesterol and triglycerides, a type of blood fat, Pfizer said Tuesday. The approval includes children whose high...

We're vacationing on the Big Island of Hawaii, and today we caught a fish! Now you may think that we're vegan, so what are we doing catching fish. You're right, but we just couldn't resist. ==SCROLL DOWN TO WATCH VIDEO==...