Eight Steps Obama Could Take to Save Food
In the face of current rates of cancer, diabetes, obesity, Alzheimer's and allergies, our families are no longer guaranteed a healthy livelihood. We need a new food system. It's our health on the line.
In the face of current rates of cancer, diabetes, obesity, Alzheimer's and allergies, our families are no longer guaranteed a healthy livelihood. We need a new food system. It's our health on the line.
Los Angeles Times | Posted 11.18.2009 | Living
In a slate of recommendations for the treatment of sleeping disorders in older patients,10 leading sleep experts acknowledge that aging does bring cha...
Heidi Murkoff | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living
Want to close the healthy baby gap -- and lower costs -- even further (and who doesn't)? Let's start even sooner. Let's begin health care before the beginning.
George Halvorson | Posted 11.12.2009 | Living
We will spend about 17.6 percent of our GDP on health care expenses this year in America, primarily because we are not healthy in some very key areas.
Posted 11.09.2009 | Living
Bob Greene, Oprah's fitness guru, shared tips from his book The Best Life Guide to Managing Diabetes and Pre-Diabetes on Good Morning America this mor...
forbes.com | Posted 11.02.2009 | Living
Though someone is diagnosed with diabetes every 20 seconds, many Americans lack basic knowledge about the potentially life-threatening disease, accord...
Scott Mendelson, M.D. | Posted 10.29.2009 | Living
A well-known cause of dementia is dementia pugilistica, or what has commonly been called being "punch drunk." In some cases, the presentation is virtually indistinguishable from Alzheimer's dementia.
Scott Mendelson, M.D. | Posted 10.27.2009 | Living
In the majority of cases, the development of Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia is the result of the acquisition of various risk factors throughout life. PTSD is one such factor.
Peter A. Ubel | Posted 10.26.2009 | Politics
Human behavior is ultimately the main cause of diabetes. But no person's behavior is completely under their own control. A number of social forces are at play, too.
Mark Morford | Posted 10.23.2009 | Comedy
In an unselfish effort to help you reduce -- but not eliminate because that would be un-American and possibly communist -- your intake of our sugary poisons, we are introducing a brand-new product.
George Halvorson | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living
We can't fix care in America until we have universal coverage. We can't afford universal coverage if we don't fix care. They are a package. They both need to be done.
D. Brad Wright | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics
The ad encapsulates everything that's wrong the health care system: consumers are insulated from the costs of their care, providers are motivated to make a profit, and Wilford Brimley looks like a walrus.
Posted 10.14.2009 | Living
Daytime sleepiness caused by the nighttime breathing disorder sleep apnea is nothing to yawn at. A new study from Canada hints that the risk of diabet...
Keli Goff | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics
Obesity costs us as much as $147 billion per year, and smoking costs taxpayers a whopping $300 billion annually, or 1,000 times the amount of the AIG bonuses.
Robyn O'Brien | Posted 10.07.2009 | Living
Today, health care spending represents 17% of our GDP, but perhaps it is time that we view our children as more than just a sales channel for Big Pharma's money making medicine.
Kathy Freston | Posted 10.08.2009 | Living
The doctors and scientists I've talked with seem to be saying the same thing: a diet high in animal protein is disastrous to our health, while a plant-based diet prevents disease and is restorative to our health.
Lester Sloan | Posted 10.03.2009 | Living
Back home again, her three-and-one-half hours of dialysis over, my mother negotiates her way through a maze of bags, chairs and boxes, toward the hazy out-of-focus shapes of the kitchen.
Robyn O'Brien | Posted 09.30.2009 | Living
In 1946, Harry Truman said, "A nation is only as healthy as its children." What have we done to ours?
Lloyd I. Sederer, MD | Posted 09.24.2009 | Politics
Have you heard a word about mental health in the deluge of discussions that populate health reform communications on TV, radio and newspapers? Have you seen any mention in Federal legislative offerings?
Barbara Dehn | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics
Insurance companies have no liability or risk if they chose not to cover prenatal tests. And since health care providers must do these tests, whether they are paid for or not, OB providers and hospitals absorb the cost.
Maria Rodale | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living
I consider myself fairly well-read, and educated about health. I've researched the endocrine disruption effects of chemicals--that is, the ways that c...
Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living
Two fascinating studies that just came out prove a link between sleep deprivation and diabetes.
Karen Kisslinger | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
Until the profit essence is taken off the table and progressive, prevention-based health care is understood to be a basic public service, there will be no meaningful health care reform in America.
Byron Williams | Posted 10.22.2009 | Home
Why don't we see the same fervor -- particularly emanating from the churches that seek to block gay marriage -- transferred, at least temporarily, to the 47 million Americans who must go without health care?
US News and World Report | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living
Black tea, a source of antioxidants, also contains properties that may help stabilize glucose levels. See video: ...
Robyn O'Brien | Posted 11.20.2009 | Green