Every year it's the same old thing. Once again this will be the year you'll tell yourself that you'll: lose weight, get fit, stop smoking, take care of your health, live greener, drink less (or more), be a nicer person. And every year, January comes and goes...and with it your...

The great Swedish botanist, Carolus Linnaeus christened the cacao tree the food of the gods, and boy, was he right!

We'll never know what nirvana is - well, most of us won't anyway, maybe the Dalai Lama (but I hear he loves chocolate, too) - but chocolate is about as...

The headline screamed from the New York Times front page: 'Medicines to Deter Some Cancers Not Taken.' A statement designed to intrigue the reader, the article tells the tale of the ignored pharmaceuticals that can prevent cancer in men and women. Apparently, study after study has shown us that diet...

As November approaches, we leave Halloween and breast cancer awareness behind for the next holiday in our yearly calendar of illnesses. Seems each month has its signature malady. Type 2 diabetes is such an American epidemic that we can skip giving kids bikes for Christmas and move right to the...

When did our children become disposable?

This loaded question was posed around the conference table in Anthony Geraci's sunny office at the Baltimore School District headquarters as a group of us talked about programs designed to help our kids make healthier choices in their lives, beginning with the food they...

No one has to tell you that the statistics are staggering, in fact so terrifying that even Stephen King could not come up with a worse scenario.

Obesity now ranks second only to smoking as a preventable cause of death in our population. Super-sized portions, snacks, soda, candy, unhealthy diets...

It's on the evening news and in newspapers all the time. Not a day goes by that someone isn't talking about health, how to eat, what to do about obesity, heart disease and diabetes and our food supply. So it was no surprise to see Larry King devote an entire...

Everyone's talking about the real suffering we are experiencing during the current economic recession. Everyone's worried about their jobs, financial situation and future. Everyone's thinking about living and eating on the cheap as a result. But ... But, is anyone thinking about the health recession we have been in for...

It's October and we all know what that means. Pink! From ribbons, to kitchen appliances, workout wear to M & M's (ah, the irony...), we are bombarded with creating awareness of breast cancer (like there's one woman unaware of it), promoting mammograms and raising money for the Cure. For more...

The debate about health care rages on, with both sides weighing in at a level of lunacy I have never seen. Conservatives are screaming about death panels, government takeovers and socialism, and extreme liberals are screaming about the ignorance and close mindedness of the conservatives. And in the middle of...

Everybody wants to have great sex. If you're not having any sex, you want it; if you're having okay sex, you want an upgrade to great and if your sex life is great, well, you want it to be mind-blowing. And it's possible. But there's more to great sex than...

America suffers from an insatiable hunger...for food, technology, houses, money, power, fame, knowledge, phones, gossip, information, clothes, cars, computers, televisions. But with all that we know; with all the information at our fingertips; with all our security systems and firewalls, it only takes a news sound bite to send us...

Walk into a fast food restaurant and look at the menu closely. Your head will spin at the sheer number of options available to wreck your health and accelerate your arrival at the Pearly Gates. They may call it convenient and even more criminally...food, but what they're really doing is...

Fat, sugar and salt; the triple threat to our waistlines... and health. Mere decades ago, the food industry made a conscious choice to seduce the American public into eating more food by making these three ingredients the cornerstones of our beloved diet of processed food. And we could not have...