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A Guide to Healthy Weight Loss
A Guide to Healthy Weight Loss: Three weeks on a low-fat vegan diet gets you on the road to your healthy weight goal Of the many ways to lose weight, one stands out as by far the most healthful. When you build your meals from a generous array of vegeta |
Vegetarian Diets: Advantages for Children
Vegetarian Diets: Advantages for Children Nutrition Panel: Patricia R. Bertron, R.D., Carol M. Coughlin, R.D., Suzanne Havala, M.S., R.D., L.D.N., F.A.D.A., Virginia Messina, M.P.H., R.D., Neal D. Barnard, M.D. Section One Encouraging children to eat well, right from t |
Milk Consumption and Prostate Cancer
Milk Consumption and Prostate Cancer Abstract Prostate cancer is one of the most common malignancies worldwide, with an estimated 400,000 new cases diagnosed annually. Its incidence and mortality have been associated with milk or dairy product consumption in intern |
Diet and Diabetes: Recipes for Success
Diet and Diabetes: Recipes for Success Diabetes Basics Glucose, a simple sugar, is the body’s main fuel. It is present in the bloodstream, but in people with diabetes it cannot get into the cells where it is needed. In type 1 diabetes (which was once referred to as childhood-onset diabetes), the pro |
Priorities for Research in Spinal Cord Injury
Priorities for Research in Spinal Cord Injury Research on spinal cord injuries aims to prevent, minimize, or repair neural tissue damage, reduce the sequelae of injury, and improve function. While animals have been used by a number of investigators, other avenues of resear |
Ready for Retirement: Will Congress Release Chimpanzees Used in Experiments
Meet Foxie. She is a 33-year-old chimpanzee living in Washington state. She spends her days playing outside, eating fresh fruits and vegetables, and showing off her favorite toy, a troll doll with blue hair. Until June 2008, Foxie lived in a laboratory in Pennsylvania where she was used in hepatitis vaccine expe |
Section Two: Caring for Patients Living with HIV/AIDS
Barriers to Care Universal Precautions Taking a Sexual History Giving HIV Test Results Terminal Illness |
Commentary on Institute of Medicine's Dec. 15 Chimpanzees in Biomedical and Behavioral Research Report
It is two weeks since the landmark Dec. 15 Institute of Medicine report Chimpanzees in Biomedical and Behavioral Research: Assessing the Necessity was released. Generally favorable and sometimes gushing reviews have come from scientific, advocacy, and ethics communities, and now we face the critical next step: imple |
Nutrition News Releases
2012 Nearly Half of Supermarket Chicken Tainted by Feces, Testing Finds April 11, 2012 Billboard Warns Chicago of Hot Dog-Butt Cancer Link March 13, 2012 Dietitians Rank Five Worst School Breakfasts: Ham and Egg Biscuit Tops List March 8, 2012 ‘Shut It Down,’ Doctors Tel |
The Worst Low-Carb Restaurant Entrées
The Worst Low-Carb Restaurant Entrées A Report by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine March 2004 As the food industry tries to cash in on the low-carbohydrate craze, many restaurant chains are adding menu items labeled “low-carb,” & |
A Proposal for Improved Healthfulness in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
Many Americans are in less than optimal health. Approximately two-thirds are overweight, half of whom are obese. Diabetes prevalence continues to climb with 25.8 million Americans suffering from the disease and an estimated 79 million more with prediabetes (CDC Diabetes 2011). Economically disadvantaged people are at |
Food for Life TV
Nutrition News – Lectures by Neal Barnard, M.D. – Cooking Demonstrations – Your Questions Answered – Shopping Tips – Restaurant Reviews – And More! Core Classes A New Approach to Type 2 Diabetes Neal Barnard, M.D., gives an overview of the worldwide diabetes epide |
Animal Care and Use Committees: Structural Problems Impair Usefulness
Animal Care and Use Committees: Structural Problems Impair Usefulness Introduction The Animal Welfare Act (AWA) requires that institutional animal care and use committees (IACUCs) be established at research facilities that use animals covered under the Act. The Public Health Service and the Interagency Research |
Foods and Breast Cancer Survival
Healthful diets not only help prevent cancer; they also improve survival when cancer has been diagnosed. In the last issue of Good Medicine, we looked at how foods affect survival in prostate cancer. In this issue, we look at breast cancer. The first clues that foods might affect the course of breast cancer came fr |
Food for Life TV Archive
View any of the many archived shows below. March 3: Lively Flavored Latin Seitan Stew (YouTube) Katherine Lawrence, a Cancer Project Food for Life cooking class instructor, prepares Latin Seitan Stew from Dr. Barnard’s The Cancer Survivor’s Guide: Foods That Help you Fight Back. The bell peppers in th |
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