Personal Health

How a Corrupt Dietitians' Group Has Taken Over Nutrition Advice in America

By Ari LeVaux / AlterNet

The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics is engaged in a turf war over the right to give nutritional advice -- and sell it to the highest bidder.

Read More

How America's Prescription Drug Addiction Crisis May Get a Whole Lot Worse

By John Farley / AlterNet

Six Million Dollar Men: Will Future Olympians Be Technologically Enhanced?

By Charles Q. Choi / Txchnologist

Doctor: Pubic Hair Exists for a Reason -- Our Obsession With Hairless Genitals Must End!

By Emily Gibson, MD / KevinMD

Do You Eat Lunch Alone At Your Desk? Why We Need to Reclaim Our Lunch Break

By Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

Metal Shards and Much Worse In Your Food? What Happens When the Food Industry Regulates Itself

Merchant of Death Steps Down: A Look at the Deadly Work of Philip Morris International's Outgoing CEO Louis Camilleri

6 New Ways Big Pharma Is Scheming to Make Billions at the Expense of Your Health

blog advertising is good for you.

Personal Health

New Weight-Loss Drugs Could Well Be America's Next Health Care Disaster

Martha Rosenberg / AlterNet

Health-Care Investment a Key to Creating Jobs, Saving Lives

Christian John Lillis / AlterNet

Does Gatorade Actually Work?

David Tuller / Mother Jones

Shocking Revelations About the FDA Exposed: Rubberstamping Drugs and Dangerous Medical Equipment, Spying on its Own Scientists

Martha Rosenberg / Truthout

Why the Right Has New Legal Ammunition in Its Quest to End Medicare, Social Security and Our Entire Social Safety Net

Jessica Mason Pieklo / AlterNet

Think Twice Next Time About Touching a Receipt with Your Bare Hands -- Your Unborn Child May Thank You for It

Scott Thill / AlterNet

The Top 5 Most Hypocritical Corporate Sponsors

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

The Sky Is Now Legally Protected, Thanks to a Texas Judge

David Morris / On the Commons

A Bible-Based Approach to Health Care: Something Ails You? You Might Be Possessed by a Devil

Valerie Tarico / AlterNet

10 Mind-Blowing Discoveries This Week

Liz Langley / AlterNet

Wounded and Pregnant, an Aurora Family Without Health Coverage

Joe Conason / AlterNet

Congress Set to Take Food Aid Away From Millions of Hungry Americans

Christopher D. Cook / AlterNet

5 Critical Actions That Really Can Put Us on a Sustainable Path

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

Hundreds of Medical Marijuana Supporters Protest Obama in Oakland as Feds Escalate War on Pot

J.A. Myerson / AlterNet

In Aurora, Expect PTSD to Spread Far Beyond the Movie Theater

Tom Jacobs / Pacific Standard

Criminalizing Condoms Puts Sex Workers -- and Everyone Else -- at Risk

Michelle Chen / In These Times

How Less Work for Everybody Could Solve a Lot of Our Economic Turbulence and Make Life More Pleasant

Sarah Seltzer / AlterNet

Will Compliance With State Medical Pot Laws Finally be Admissible in Federal Prosecutions?

Phillip Smith / Drug War Chronicle

Eating Disorders Aren't Just for the Young: Anorexia Killed My Grandmother

Claire Glass / xojane

'We're Here, We're Queer, and We're Not Going Shopping!' Protesters Call Out Corporate Sponsorship at Pride Parade

Alyssa Figueroa / AlterNet

How Weed Can Protect Us From Cancer and Alzheimer's

Clint Werner / AlterNet

4 Dangerous Myths About Government Spending

Mattea Kramer / TomDispatch.com

An Age-Old Secret to Losing Weight

Jill Suttie / Greater Good

How Big Pharma and Dr. Drew Made a Fortune Deceiving America

Lynn Stuart Parramore / AlterNet

Mooney: Are Conservatives Happier Than Liberals?

Chris Mooney / Salon

Pages