Dr. Bernadine Healy Writes a New Prescription For Health

Despite its importance to health, nutrition has been overlooked as a science for too long, said Dr. Bernadine Healy, former director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and dean of Ohio State University College of Medicine.

Dr. Grundy's State of the Onion Address: A Year of Discovery Bears Much Fruit

Each year at the annual meeting of the Friends of the Center for Human Nutrition, Dr. Scott Grundy, director of the Center, presents the research highlights and breakthroughs of the past year.

Chips Don't Quite Stack Up For New Fat-Free Olestra

It sounds like a junk-food junkie's dream come true--a fat substitute with no calories and no fat.

Take 30 minutes of exercise and call me in the morning

Exercise is a key to good health, but you don't have to train like a marathoner to do your heart some good.

Are Fat Free Foods Weighing Us Down?

Low-fat and fat-free have become popular and profitable labels on hundreds of new products on grocery-store shelves, yet Americans are more obese than ever.

Making the most of the genetic cards you're dealt

Why is it that some people can smoke, eat cheeseburgers for lunch and steak for dinner, never exercise and still not develop heart disease, while others who follow a strict, low-fat diet and exercise every day can't avoid it?