For decades coconuts have gotten an unfair health rap based on their high fat content. The truth is, they're good for the body — and easy on the taste buds. Here are quick-and-easy recipes to incorporate more coconuts into your diet.
Learn what functional-medicine healthcare providers think of the latest blood-pressure guidelines — and how to manage your blood pressure wisely.
Superfoods get a lot of attention for their nutritional potency — some justified, some overstated. These seven power foods are actually worth the hype.
Despite obsessing for nearly a half century over the role of lipoproteins in heart disease, researchers seem to be more conflicted than ever.
Why the recent AHA study demonizing coconut oil isn’t saying anything new.
Two new studies suggest that even a leisurely embrace of bicycling can prevent heart attacks.
A new study suggests that geezers might benefit from producing more LDL cholesterol.
Have I been duped by my doctor or is time to shake up my routine to see if I can get even healthier than I am now?
The results of my recent lab tests are in, and it appears I'm much healthier when I avoid the doctor's office.
How one woman took a “let’s just try” approach to changing her body, her self-perception, and her life.
The U.S. Dietary Guidelines surrounding cholesterol have been wrong.
Federal panel recommends dropping cholesterol as a nutrient of concern in forthcoming dietary guidelines update.
Senior editor Anjula Razdan shares her top hits from "The Right Diet" session at the recent Integrative Health Symposium.
New research adds to growing evidence that sugar is connected to numerous health woes, including cardiovascular disease.
Commonly found in such processed foods as doughnuts, frozen pizzas and coffee creamer, artificial trans fat could soon become a grocery store relic.
Instead of steak or chicken, turn up the heat on a piece of fish this summer and reap some tasty and healthy benefits.
Could we Baby Boomers actually be healthier, as a group, than the generations chasing us?
TV commercials are constantly urging old guys like me to "ask my doctor" about cholesterol-lower drugs. We'd be better off ignoring them.
Simple, wholesome and healthy, eggs are easy to prepare with panache.
The numbers say I'm at high risk for heart disease and all sorts of nasty complaints, but do the numbers tell the whole story?
My lab test scores tell me I'm a healthy guy, except the part about the imminent heart attack.