A high-fat diet during pregnancy may program a woman's baby for future diabetes, even if she herself is not obese or diabetic, says a new University of Illinois study published...

Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease in which the body's immune system attacks and destroys the insulin-producing cells of the pancreas. The American Diabetic Association says that the causes...

Ever gotten into a discussion and wished you had access to the multitude of reasons why dairy is probably the worst food on the planet? Well if so, you are...

WHITEWASH: The Disturbing Truth About Cow's Milk & Your HealthBy Joseph Keon, Ph.D.Reviewed by Ruth Heidrich, Ph.D  If you or anyone you care about still consumes dairy products, the information...

You hear it all the time: drink milk to get enough calcium to protect yourself from osteoporsis!  But is it true? Numerous definitive studies provide the answer: No, milk does...

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...

This past week, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill that will essentially prohibit, starting in 2015, any egg from being sold in the state that comes from caged hens....

Two interesting videos paint very different pictures of what life is like for cows in the Ohio dairy industry. You can watch both videos, and decide which is the truth....

Got milk? Plenty of people think its perfectly healthy to drink, and advertisements would have you eating dairy all the time. But it may not be as healthy as you...

At the end of April, the National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) petitioned the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to stop producers of non-dairy food from using terms such as "milk,"...

We've said it all along, and the research supports it. Want to avoid dementia? Then avoid meat and dairy. It's so mainstream, it's on the front of CNN.com. Here's an...

February's Super Bowl Sunday provides an occasion to marvel at the sheer physical prowess of dedicated athletes who have conditioned their bodies to near super-hero form.But the high-profile cardiac-related deaths...

Protein, fat, cholesterol, methionine (a sulfur-containing amino acid), and dietary acids, which are all superabundant in animal foods, are poisoning nearly everyone following the standard Western diet. Most people cannot...

Milk, butter, ice cream and cheese are a great source of nutrition -- if you want to pack on weight, feed allergies and autoimmune diseases, and grow fatal tumors. In...

If you're loading up on dairy but skimping on vegetables, you could still be at five times the risk of low bone mass. That's the implication of a recent Japanese...

'Tis the season for making babies -- at least judging from the fact that there are more babies born in August than any other month. While this may be cold...

It doesn't matter where they shoot the commercial, the cows aren't really happy... The California Milk Advisory Board may have shot itself in the hoof. The board, which promotes the...

Jay Gordon MD answers the question -- do we need meat to be healthy? Does milk prevent osteoporosis? Turns out your mother was right: eat your veggies. The above is...

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,...

Men eating a vegan diet have lower levels of a protein associated with prostate cancer, British scientists said today.Saying that while further research was needed, the findings from researchers at...