Not only is adult onset diabetes on the rise in children, the disease is more rapidly progressive in children. Meanwhile the food industry continues to aggressively market sugar laden "foods" to our kids.

Academic research is often dictated by corporations that endow professorships, give money to universities, and put their executives on education boards.

A new UCLA rat study is the first to show how a diet steadily high in fructose slows the brain, hampering memory and learning—and how omega-3 fatty acids can counteract the disruption.

HBO has turned its attention to a huge health problem: Obesity and its enormous economic, emotional, social, and health cost on individuals, families, communities, and the country at large.

Beekeeper Dan Harvey is breeding "survivor" bees by crossbreeding wild varieties with domestic stock. As a result, his own colonies have been on the rebound—no small feat in today’s bee climate.

There are many risks associated with GMOs. If you are ready to spring clean them out of your diet, here are ten easy steps to help you give GMOs the boot.

Rice University engineering students, in cooperation with Houston METRO, have designed a system to continually remove pathogens responsible for tuberculosis, flu and pneumonia from city buses.

The nation's rising rate of obesity has been well-chronicled. But businesses, governments and individuals are only now coming to grips with the costs of those extra pounds.

Scientists found evidence of both legal and banned drugs in factory-farmed chickens—including ingredients from Tylenol, Benadryl and Prozac. Farms feed chickens mood-altering drugs so they are not "stressed out," making their meat tough.

Epidemic childhood obesity is just the visible tip of an iceberg of present and pending peril. We have widespread Type 2 diabetes among our children; a generation ago, this was called "adult onset" diabetes.