McDonald’s is setting up vegetarian outlets
That’s right. Financial Times reports veggie only outlets will appear in Amritsar, home to the Golden Temple, the holiest site...
Best diets
U.S. News evaluated and ranked 20 diets with input from a panel of health experts.
Vegetarian diet and the risk of the metabolic syndrome
Researchers at Loma Linda University, in California, compared dietary patterns.
Effect of vegetarian diets on mood
Vegetarian diets exclude fish, the major dietary source of fatty acids, eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), which are...
Lowering cholesterol using a plant-based diet
Current guidelines recommend diet as first-line therapy to lower cholesterol levels in the blood. But what constitutes an optimal dietary...
Are organic kiwis healthier to eat?
A study by Dr. Maria Amodio from the University of California, Davis compared the nutritional profile of conventional and organic...
Benefits and risks of vegan diets
 Veganism is a diet and lifestyle that excludes using animals for food, clothing, or any other purpose. Dr. Winston Craig...
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CAM and diabetes: An update of recent studies
The World Health Organization has predicted a 39% rise in the worldwide prevalence of diabetes by 2030. And an article...
Strong words about the effects of a vegan diet on infants, babies, and toddlers
An op-ed in The New York Times is critical of the effects of veganism (a vegetarian who omits all animal...
Status of CAM to treat the frailty syndrome
There’s a need, but no well-documented evidence. Researchers from the Miami VA Medical Center in Florida have complied a detailed...
Vegan diet and type 2 diabetes
While both a low-fat vegan diet and a diet based on ADA guidelines improve blood sugar and cholesterol control in...
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Interactions between supplements and drugs used to treat AIDS
Researchers from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore have reviewed natural health products (NHPs) and antiretroviral drugs (ARVs). Here are the...
Benefits of a vegan diet for rheumatoid arthritis
Dietary manipulation helps people regain a sense of control over their disease. In addition, researchers from the Karolinska Institutet in...
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Dolly Parton has back pain
It’s so bad that she canceled her concert tour. Here’s the state-of-the-art (not including pharmacology and surgery) for treating lower...
Allopathic and CAM update on diabetes treatment in young people
The review article is posted on the American Family Physician website. In addition to diagnosis and pharmacological treatment, it covers...
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Prevalence of diabetes in the US in 2006
The Centers for Disease Control has just published the latest data on the prevalence of diabetes in the US. 11%...
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The most commonly used vitamins and herbals
These data are from a telephone survey of more than 2500 randomly sampled noninstitutionalized Americans, which was published in 2002....