Just how much sodium is in a meal from popular chain restaurants? You may be shocked (though probably not surprised). A recent story in Time Magazine reveals that major restaurant chains put a LOT...

When I was 60 I had been working out and eating well for decades - or so I thought.  Sometimes that included lots of meat and for a few years I was a vegetarian. ...

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...

More young people and adults in their 30s and 40s are being hospitalized for stroke, even as stroke rates are dropping in older people, new data show. The findings, reported this week at the...

Just as you were starting to feel virtuous for having switched from sugary sodas to low- or no-calorie substitutes, a new study comes along suggesting that diet sodas might be bad for your head...

The proof of Anderson County’s live-hard, die-young culture is in the bread pudding — and the all-you-can-eat fried catfish, the drive-through tobacco barns and the dozens of doughnut shops that dot this East Texas...

Just one drink -- whether beer, wine, or hard liquor -- may double your risk of stroke in the hour after your cocktail hour, according to a new study in Stroke. A few hours...

A Canadian-led study suggests about 90 per cent of the risk of having a stroke is preventable through lifestyle changes. In Friday's issue of the Lancet medical journal, the international study suggests high blood...

omen who walk two or more hours per week or who walk at a brisk pace can significantly reduce their risk of suffering a stroke, new research indicates. The findings are based on a...

A moment on the lips, forever on the hips? A bad figure is hardly the worst of it. Eating a lot of fat, especially the kind that's in cookies and pastries, can significantly raise...

High salt intake is associated with significantly greater risk of both stroke and cardiovascular disease, concludes a study published on the British Medical Journal website. The link between high salt intake and high blood...

Dr. John McDougall wasn't always the healthy fellow you see today. Fortunately a major stroke that almost killed him...saved his life, and thus the lives of many others. The above is an excerpt from...