Kathy Freston, AlterNet. October 8, 2009. More Doctors and nutritional scientists are saying that a diet high meat is disastrous to our health, while a plant-based (vegan) diet prevents disease and is restorative to it.
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!. August 10, 2009. The food industry has changed American eating habits and helped create the country's No. 1 public-health issue.
Roger Dobson, The Independent. December 25, 2008. A good chuckle doesn't just cheer us up. Doctors are discovering that it can ease pain and even help fight disease.
Barbara Hesselgrave, Miller-McCune.com. November 27, 2008. The incidence of type 2 diabetes has almost doubled in the last decade. And Hispanics are disproportionately affected.
Trudy Lieberman, Columbia Journalism Review. October 13, 2008. A look at how Obama and McCain's health care plans would play out in ordinary Americans' lives.
Rick Weiss, Science Progress. October 10, 2008. The Wall Street bailout cost $700 billion. The entire National Institutes of Health budget is less than $30 billion -- and sinking.
Courtney E. Martin, AlterNet. December 12, 2007. Author Gary Taubes challenges common myths about obesity and explains why Atkins might well have been right.
David Usborne, The Independent UK. November 13, 2007. After years of anti-obesity public health advice, a major new study causes an outcry by concluding that the moderately overweight live longer.
Roger Dobson, The Independent UK. September 4, 2007. On the 15th anniversary of the little pill that changed sex lives around the world, a look at Viagra's many other uses.
Jimmy Lee Shreeve, Independent UK. August 16, 2007. Desperate to lose weight, one person found that only one diet did the trick: that of Paleolithic man. Bring on the meat.
Terrence McNally, AlterNet. March 14, 2007. The government and the food industry know that Type 2 diabetes is linked to lifestyle and diet; yet profit continues to determine food policy, and nutrition remains a scant part of medial education. Dr. Neal Barnard offers a solution to the crisis.
