The importance of magnesium is hard to overstate. Magnesium is required to give the “spark of life” to metabolic functions involving energy creation transport in all known living organisms.

Turns out diet soft drinks may not be the healthy alternative they are advertised to be. A new study finds potential link between daily consumption of diet soft drinks and risk of vascular events.

Think that mercury pollution is nothing to worry about if you don’t live in the rural Northeast and don’t eat tons of fish, right? Guess again...

There are many factors that must be confronted to change our destructive industrial food system. Perhaps the most difficult is the political arena, where billions of lobbying dollars have prevented or stalled public policy.

Paula Deen, the queen of culinary excess would have us believe that she didn't eat herself into type 2 diabetes. But her celebration of excess and indulgence is irresponsible if not outright dangerous in the face of our obesity epidemic.

Getting healthy food onto our kids' plates (or trays) couldn't be more important. In between commercials for fast food and over-processed junk stamped with a nutrition label, obesity and diabetes are skyrocketing across America.

The three major "epidemics" of psychiatric illness occurring during the past 15 years -- childhood bipolar, autism and attention deficit disorder -- have all mainly involved children.The reasons why are surprising, or not.

After seeing an elderly woman walking with groceries on sweltering day, with little hope of find public transportation, Dr. Richard Jackson realized that the very way we have built American could be a threat to our health.

Evidence of cardiovascular disease and diabetes risk is present in the blood of adolescents who consume a lot of fructose. And the picture get worse in the face of excess belly fat, researchers report.

A sprawl of loosely connected groups in New York, interspersed with celebrities like Mark Ruffalo, Debra Winger and documentarian Josh Fox (Gasland), have become a community against fracking that never existed before.