Paleo Diet

By David Katz, M.D.- Director of Yale University’s Prevention Research Center

The USDA announced today that eggs are significantly lower in cholesterol than previously thought. And, by the way, they are also quite a bit higher in vitamin D.

All by itself, this is potentially important news, with wide implications for the American diet. The [...]

Saturated Fat and Heart Disease

by Dwight C. Lundell M.D.

Does the thought of a steak, bacon and eggs, or real milk make you cringe thinking you’re instantly clogging up your arteries?  How many times have you seen physicians and nutritionists write “artery clogging saturated fats”? For the last 40 years the dietary [...]

Dr. Joseph Mercola

Physician and author

If the phrase “eat your vegetables” echoes from your childhood memories of suppers gone by, then rest assured your mother was right. One of the best ways to improve your health is to eat plenty of high quality vegetables — ideally raw, locally grown and organic.

It sounds like [...]

Mary Hedlin of Hedlin Farm

By MARK BITTMAN

For decades, Americans believed that we had the world’s healthiest and safest diet. We worried little about this diet’s effect on the environment or on the lives of the animals (or even the workers) it relies upon. Nor did we worry about its ability to endure — that [...]