What about our food? Paracelsus would argue -- real food is food, but processed food is poison. Literally. Because processed food has been overloaded, and you've been overdosed. What allows the food industry to overdose us, and why is it legal?

By Toni Clarke New York, May 6 (Reuters) - Amid growing public concern over the safety of additives in products ranging from caffeinat...

You might expect to find beetles and animal bones in a haunted house this Halloween. You probably don't expect to find them in your Halloween candy. ...

The bright yellow pineapple and the red cherries found in the canned fruit you eat might appear to be natural, but those vivid colors are actually the...

The bottom line is that FDA officials just don't act as if they are the protectors of health that the public expects them to be. Instead, time and time again, they have shoved problems under the carpet, perhaps hoping the problems will be forgotten or solved through voluntary action.

Pink slime happens to have been outed. But what other things that you never knew you never knew were in your food are still finding their way into you, and your kids?

by guest blogger Tyler Graham, coauthor of The Happiness Diet 1: Deciphering food label ingredients leads to unappetizing results. Take the innocuous...

Modern food science has discovered that by using chemical additives we can now make old food appear almost as good. As a result, additives are now used in nearly every packaged food. This trend lies at the heart of our health problems.

For neurological illnesses, a body of scientific research demonstrates that certain food additives contribute to excessive nerve cell firing, and thus may possibly trigger neurological incidents.

G6PD is an essential enzyme that is lacking in people with this widespread genetic disorder, and its absence leads to a condition that is closely related to other forms of anemia.

As headlines swirl and climates whirl/ And Wall Street finds its feet/ There's one refrain that doesn't change/ "Mommy, what's there to eat?"

Certain artificial food colorings and other additives can worsen hyperactive behaviors in children aged 3 to 9, British researchers reported on Wednes...