Let's be real. The most important thing you can do with your diet to protect your health is to minimize or avoid entirely...

We recently ran an article by Chef AJ talking about how she dropped the extra weight she had been trying to lose for...

Legendary singer Chaka Kahn has been turning heads lately after dropping 60 pounds.  Her secret?  In a recent interview she says she "went...

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...

The rise of obesity is usually blamed on too much eating and not enough exercising, but Robert Lustig, MD, a UC San Francisco...

Editor's note: Note that this article mentions animal studies. We see animal studies receiving attention in the media, and we see government bodies...

Editor's Note: John McDougall MD has been citing research like this for years. If you have diabetes and want to get healthy and...

Diabetes or prediabetes predicted for half of Americans by 2020 More than half of all Americans will have diabetes or prediabetes by the year...

Replacing white rice in your diet with brown rice may reduce the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to a new study....

Overweight girls who lose weight before they reach adulthood greatly reduced their risk for developing type 2 diabetes, according to researchers from the...

Nearly half of all adult Americans have high cholesterol, high blood pressure or diabetes, all conditions that increase the risk of cardiovascular disease,...

Six thousand deaths over the last decade could have been avoided if Americans drank less soda and sugary beverages, according to an analysis...

Hundreds of people taking Avandia, a controversial diabetes medicine, needlessly suffer heart attacks and heart failure each month, according to confidential government reports...

The idea had been floated as a way to finance a healthcare overhaul while combating obesity. But the industry has lobbied key lawmakers...

Diabetes risk increases with higher intake of total protein and animal protein, according to a new study in this month's issue of Diabetes...

Scientists have proved for the first time that a cheap form of sugar used in thousands of food products and soft drinks can...

ScienceDaily (Dec. 1, 2009) -- Researchers from LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans School of Public Health, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of...

Caroline Trapp wants you to give yourself three weeks -- OK, four counting a week to prepare to do it right -- to...

November is National Vegan Month. This is a month for celebrating choice. Whether you are a carnivore, flexitarian, vegetarian or full-fledged vegan, take...

Imagine children indulging in popsicles and soda for breakfast, or ramen noodles with dry Kool-Aid powder sprinkled on top. Picture families dining on...

f current obesity trends continue, more than 40 percent of adults in the United states will be obese and spending on the epidemic...

Dr. Fuhrman knows that what you ate, got you sick. What you eat going forward, can get you well. Just look:   The...

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,...

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,...

Hundreds of people struggling with Type 2 Diabetes travel to the beautiful Arbuckle mountains in southern Oklahoma to regain hope and restore their...