Editor's Note: Here's an Op-ed piece by Dr. Esselstyn that the New York Times doesn't want you to read. Last Friday night Barbara Walters television special highlighted six celebrities and their thoughts and emotions surrounding their open heart surgery.  Barbara...

Drinking a lot of soda and other sugary beverages has been linked to an increased risk of obesity and diabetes, among other health problems. Here's another reason to cut back: A new study suggests that even one sweetened drink per...

There’s a feeling of inevitability in writing about McDonald’s latest offering, their “bowl full of wholesome” — also known as oatmeal. The leading fast-food multinational, with sales over $16.5 billion a year (just under the GDP of Afghanistan), represents a...

Here, it seems, is a surefire business-losing proposition: A cardiac surgeon learns firsthand how to stop and even reverse heart disease and starts proselytizing about it, thus potentially reducing the number of patients needing to have him open their chests...

Twenty-five-year-old Brittney Lipsett has had high cholesterol since she was 13 years old. Her parents, aunts and uncles on both sides of family take statins to control their high cholesterol, and about a year and a half ago, Lipsett decided...

Filling up on fiber -- particularly fiber from whole grains -- may reduce your risk of dying from heart disease, infections, and respiratory diseases, says a new study published online in the Archives of Internal Medicine. Men and women who...

Obese men face a dramatically higher risk of dying from a heart attack, regardless of whether or not they have other known risk factors for cardiovascular disease, a new study reveals. The finding stems from an analysis involving roughly 6,000...

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 and your heart. The study, which...

A school district in Sag Harbor, New York, recently decided it had to clean up its act and provide healthier, plant-strong alternatives. What was the inciting event?  VegSource's own film, PROCESSED PEOPLE. Bridgehampton Union Free School District is participating in...

Eat Healthy After 70 & You'll Boost Chances of Reaching 80 by 24% Say you've made it to the ripe old age of 70 after a lifetime of not-so-great eating habits -- why change now? Because you may live longer,...

In her book, "Our Daily Meds," Melody Petersen documents how the pharmaceutical industry has completely corrupted the practice of medicine in the US. According to statistics she cites, in 2007 94% of all US doctors reported receiving gifts or cash...

Women who drink fructose-rich beverages such as sugar-sweetened sodas and orange juice are at increased risk for gout, a new study finds. The incidence of gout -- a painful type of inflammatory arthritis -- in the United States increased from...

We’re all urged to eat five servings of fruits and vegetables a day, but new research finds eight servings may be needed to cut the risk of dying from heart disease. The diet and lifestyles of more than 300,000 people...

We've reported extensively on the ties between pharmaceutical companies and the physicians they fund to speak, consult and do research [2]. But doctors aren't the only ones taking money from drug companies'and they're not the only stakeholders in the field...

Six years ago a small Texas publisher released an obscure book written by a father-son research team. The work, based on a series of studies conducted in rural China and Taiwan, challenged the conventional wisdom about health and nutrition by...

January is when many make resolutions to turn over a new leaf -- it's also National Glaucoma Awareness Month. So why not combine the two by resolving to eat more dark leafy greens, like kale and collards. Why? A recent...

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 in luck. Joseph Keon PhD has just written one of...

Katie Benghauser had no concept of all the forces that combined to bring the box of pills to the bottom shelf of her medicine cabinet. All she knew was that three years ago she went in for a routine checkup...

Two weeks ago, I broke the news of a new FDA report that estimated for the first time the amount of antibiotics sold in the United States every year for use in agriculture: 28.8 million pounds. That long-awaited report didn't...

Alzheimer's researchers are pushing for the disease to be redefined so that treatment can begin years earlier than under current practices. Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia, and can currently be conclusively diagnosed only with an autopsy....