Let's be real. The most important thing you can do with your diet to protect your health is to minimize or avoid entirely animal foods. Fried foods, processed foods, salty, oily, crapped up sugary...

We recently ran an article by Chef AJ talking about how she dropped the extra weight she had been trying to lose for years.  AJ had been eating a healthy plant-based diet – that...

Legendary singer Chaka Kahn has been turning heads lately after dropping 60 pounds.  Her secret?  In a recent interview she says she "went off meat, became vegan, stopped all the dairy, stopped all the...

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 in the Journal of...

The rise of obesity is usually blamed on too much eating and not enough exercising, but Robert Lustig, MD, a UC San Francisco pediatric neuroendocrinologist, asks us to look beyond the obvious. Yes, more...

Editor's note: Note that this article mentions animal studies. We see animal studies receiving attention in the media, and we see government bodies sometimes basing nutritional policy on such work, at least in part....

Editor's Note: John McDougall MD has been citing research like this for years. If you have diabetes and want to get healthy and live longer, forget the pills. They will kill you faster than...

Diabetes or prediabetes predicted for half of Americans by 2020 More than half of all Americans will have diabetes or prediabetes by the year 2020, at a cumulative cost of $3.35 trillion unless something drastically...

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

Overweight girls who lose weight before they reach adulthood greatly reduced their risk for developing type 2 diabetes, according to researchers from the National Institutes of Health and Harvard University, who analyzed 16 years...

Nearly half of all adult Americans have high cholesterol, high blood pressure or diabetes, all conditions that increase the risk of cardiovascular disease, researchers from the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said...

Six thousand deaths over the last decade could have been avoided if Americans drank less soda and sugary beverages, according to an analysis from the University of California, San Francisco. The analysis found that...

Hundreds of people taking Avandia, a controversial diabetes medicine, needlessly suffer heart attacks and heart failure each month, according to confidential government reports that recommend the drug be removed from the market. The reports,...

The idea had been floated as a way to finance a healthcare overhaul while combating obesity. But the industry has lobbied key lawmakers and financed scientific studies favorable to its position.   Employing a...

Diabetes risk increases with higher intake of total protein and animal protein, according to a new study in this month's issue of Diabetes Care. Researchers analyzed the diets of 38,094 Dutch participants from the...

Scientists have proved for the first time that a cheap form of sugar used in thousands of food products and soft drinks can damage human metabolism and is fuelling the obesity crisis. Fructose, a...

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

Caroline Trapp wants you to give yourself three weeks -- OK, four counting a week to prepare to do it right -- to become a vegetarian. Trapp, a nurse practitioner and director of diabetes...

November is National Vegan Month. This is a month for celebrating choice. Whether you are a carnivore, flexitarian, vegetarian or full-fledged vegan, take the opportunity this month to learn more about this animal-friendly lifestyle...

Imagine children indulging in popsicles and soda for breakfast, or ramen noodles with dry Kool-Aid powder sprinkled on top. Picture families dining on white rice, meat and sweet beverages for lunch and dinner every...

f current obesity trends continue, more than 40 percent of adults in the United states will be obese and spending on the epidemic will quadruple to $344 billion by 2018, according to a new...

Dr. Fuhrman knows that what you ate, got you sick. What you eat going forward, can get you well. Just look:   The above is an excerpt from our award-winning documentary, PROCESSED PEOPLE. There...

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...

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...

Hundreds of people struggling with Type 2 Diabetes travel to the beautiful Arbuckle mountains in southern Oklahoma to regain hope and restore their health. They team up with lifestyle physicians and educators for 19...