Dr Dean Ornish

Eating some meat, preferably from lean, well-fed, well-exercised, and kindly tended animals is assuredly consistent with human health. But the health of humans and the planet argue consistently for Michael Pollan's excellent and pithy advice: Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.

Small changes in life can make a big difference. Meatless Monday is a step toward developing better habits. You can do it -- and you should feel better.

It's not every day that you hear a medical doctor suggest that lifestyle changes can be a form of treatment that can reverse -- not just help prevent ...

America's obesity epidemic isn't improving because the information about how to reverse it didn't lead to motivation. The government can jiggle the food pyramid, but that won't matter as long as Americans haven't stepped on to the pyramid in the first place.

The old phrase, "Biology is destiny," will have to be seriously re-examined. A good replacement would be "Consciousness is destiny," which is the guiding reason that meditation arose in the first place.

Google Health has taken a big leap forward -- adding a new wellness dashboard that tracks everything from blood pressure to lifestyle aspects like exercise, stress, eating habits, even sleep quality.

It's the same processed food story. Additives make the product cheaper and tastier, and they give it a longer shelf life. It's about business, not health. This is what happened with soy.

What this study suggests is quite provocative enough for now: take good enough care of yourself, and even your genes will get a makeover.

Western medicine usually prescribes a pill or other laboratory made medication to help cure. Yet the idea that food and dietcan help the body heal itself is a concept thousands of years old.

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It's resoundingly clear in that a plant-based diet is both preventative and healing, whereas a diet high in animal protein is destructive to our health. High protein diets not only makes us sick, but also fat.

Our genes and nervous system are not fixed and can change, Deepak Chopra said. He added his own twist that psychological information is transformed into biological information.

With all we know about nutrition's impact on health, to remotely hint that eating a healthy diet and exercising has little if any impact on reducing our risk of disease is irresponsible at best.

We must not only change who is covered but also what is covered to include personalized lifestyle medicine if we are to make current treatments more effective and less costly.

Searching for health information on the web can feel overwhelming. The power of the Internet is also its limitation--it provides information, but not guidance on how to sort what is credible and what is not.

In writing about the top 10 medical events of the decade, I first began writing about the latest high-tech breakthroughs in genomics, stem cell research, angiogenesis, and so on.

If you really want to make a change on this planet, a plant-based diet is the easiest, fastest way to get there.

For the life of me, I can't figure out why every single American isn't eating a healthy diet. I can't believe that there's one person who wants to be fat, at risk of disease, lethargic, foggy and achy.

Like many Americans, I am inspired by President Obama's commitment to health reform. Unfortunately, what was missing from his most recent speech was ...

If you are willing to exercise regularly and eat on the slim side, even though the clock is ticking away, you can perform well both physically and mentally into your 90s.

Meaningful health reform needs to provide incentives for physicians and other health professionals to teach their patients healthy ways of living rather than reimbursing primarily drugs and surgical interventions.

When a Western doctor sticks a tongue depressor down your throat and tells you to say; "Ahhh," he's using one of the five senses to observe throat red...