Dr. David Jenkins, the pioneering nutrition researcher behind the Portfolio Diet, joins Chuck Carroll to explain how a carefully selected combination of foods may help bring cholesterol under control.

For decades, computer programs designed to predict whether a drug is safe have relied on one main idea: a drug's chemical shape determines how it behaves in the body. These "shape-based" models have ...

Maintaining a healthy weight is one of the most effective ways to reduce your risk of chronic disease, including many types of cancer. Not only are those who maintain a healthy weight less likely to ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — A low-fat vegan diet lowers the energy density of the foods people eat by roughly 30%, allowing them to eat satisfying amounts of food while taking in fewer calories and losing ...

If steak were medicine, America would be one of the healthiest nations on Earth. Instead, we are among the sickest. This contradiction sits at the center of today’s escalating debate over meat. In a ...

Top experts gather to share the latest research in nutrition and medicine! Register now; seating is limited. Join health care professionals in Washington, D.C., for the 14th annual International ...

Since 2017, Elon Musk’s company Neuralink has subjected animals—including monkeys, pigs, rats, and sheep—to invasive, often deadly brain experiments. Through 2020, the company paid $1.4 million to the ...

The Physicians Committee’s Medical Simulation Fund helps training programs replace live animals in order to improve patient outcomes and better prepare health care providers. The Fund, which launched ...

Marissa spent many years believing that losing weight meant restriction, giving up favorite foods, and constantly starting over. Through her own journey, she discovered a more compassionate and ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – After receiving advertising payments from Novo Nordisk, CBS’s 60 Minutes aired a 13-minute promotion of Wegovy, the Novo Nordisk weight loss drug, during its Jan. 1 broadcast, ...

WASHINGTON—A new study, published by the North American Menopause Society in the journal Menopause, found that a diet intervention is about as effective (88%) as ...

U.S. meat and dairy companies act collectively to block climate legislation that might limit production, according to a New York University study published in the journal Climatic Change. The ...