President Barack Obama has the potential of having a pretty good second year in office. Conventional inside-the-Beltway wisdom is that "nothing much ...
In our OB-GYN practice, the #1 complaint we hear from our patients is about weight gain. The climate in southern California, where we live and work, e...
In 1975, a FDA Task Force conducted a comprehensive review of the scientific literature on the toxicity of aspartame, revealing suppressed evidence on the toxic and carcinogenic effects of aspartame.
For me cooking is a means to an end. I cook for my own health and happiness, and for whomever I happen to be sharing my time with at the moment.
For the last few generations, our nation has managed to marginalize poetry, an art that is and always has been central to the species.
In America television commercials are pushing prescription drugs at us promising to fix just about everything. How well the drugs are working is something of an unknown. How well the ads are selling the drugs is pretty obvious.
This first installment of the PBS series This Emotional Life consisted of three segments: family, friends, and lovers. Each was oddly ominous, seeming to warn us of the worst that can happen.
It is okay to research and gather information when various symptoms present themselves, but avoid self-diagnosis. Leave diagnosis up to your primary care physician or medical specialist.
You don't need to pay people to tell you what to do (except for us, of course). Living a good life is all about finding balance in what you eat and how you behave. Put your energy in a better place.
This 50-pound big-time-loser is here to tell you that the best way to begin anew is to make sure that the energy in your home is supporting your new healthy eating and living style.
People magazine's latest issue, "They Lost Half Their Size" is on magazine racks now. It features everyday people who have lost 100 plus pounds without weight loss drugs or surgery.
I have worked in the addiction field for forty years, since I began researching my book, Love and Addiction. I take a non-disease approach, since I find the idea that you are born to be a lifelong addict unhelpful.
American women are sleep-deprived, and paying a heavy price for it. So, how about launching a sleep challenge to your team at work -- including your boss?
So far, only thousands of people have died from swine flu. Unless we radically change the way chickens and pigs are raised for food, though, it may only be a matter of time before a catastrophic pandemic arises.
Many Americans are far too liberal with their servings of meat, dairy products, eggs, and other less-than-healthy foods. And they are getting more so with each passing year.
You decided a long time ago to go with artificial sweeteners. After a while, you didn't even notice the slightly different taste compared to sugar-sweetened beverages.
We need to stop being afraid that missing the diagnosis of a disease will send us directly to the morgue. As we change focus from getting a diagnosis to staying healthy, our health will improve.
To the usual list of new year's resolutions, most of them having to do with bettering ourselves in one way or another, I invite you to consider adding a new one: let's quit making so many mistakes.
I am offering a few reading suggestions -- all affiliated in some way to a terrific website or blog (clearly a trend for 2010).
I set out to collect and formulate some straightforward, memorable, everyday rules for eating, a set of personal policies that would, taken together or even separately, nudge people onto a healthier and happier path.
That a woman consented to use her body as a surrogate was irrelevant, because there are some acts to which nobody is permitted to consent. As well-meaning as this approach might have been, its underpinnings are inescapably sexist.
