“Your cholesterol is too high,” the doc said. “You’ve got to lower it or it could become a real problem.” Yikes. I was 23 years old. Since there was no internet back then (imagine!), I scoured the libraries and book stores for information on how to lower my cholesterol. Becoming a vegetarian seemed to be a popular theme for that sort of thing, so that’s what I did. Remarkably, it worked. I loved the veg...

Summer is the season to relax and enjoy life a bit more than usual. During the summer, we care less about clocks and calendars and more about camping and cookouts. We care less about routines and regimens and more about rest and relaxation. We care less about deadlines and details and more about daisies and daydreams. At least we should… Truth is, more and more of us are skipping our summer sabbatical for endless weeks...

Soda has been making headlines all year.   New York City is looking to ban large sodas in restaurants, movie theaters, and street cars,  and the American Cancer Society is requesting that U.S. health officials view soda’s health risks in the same way they viewed tobacco’s health risks forty years ago.  And if that weren’t enough, a study published in the May issue of the American Journal of Nutrition found an increased risk of stroke...