Vegetarians can get all the essentials through the food they eat

Nutrition columnist Molly Kimball on eating right.

The far-reaching health benefits of fasting

Besides its spiritual significance, religious fasting translates into several health benefits for those who go through with it.

SLIDESHOW: PETA's lettuce ladies make leafy diet seem sinfully delicious

SAN ANTONIO -- Men's Health magazine ranks the Alamo City 7th in a list of 10 fattest U.S. cities. PETA's lettuce ladies showed off the benefits of a vegan diet to downtown San Antonians as they handed out info kits on animal cruelty and animal-free diets. To top it all off, staff of the Green Vegeterian served vegetarian "hot dogs." SLIDESHOW: PETA's lettuce ladies make leafy diet seem sinfully ...

Vegan vacation

Thousands are dropping by the Farm Sanctuary, leaving with a new way of looking at the food they eat.

Go vegan in 21 days

Consider it an experiment - one in which you are the researcher as well as the test subject. And your body is the lab. In a way, that's the premise of the online 21-Day Vegan Kickstart program presented by the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine.

Baconfest 2010 sizzles; dedicated lovers of salty pork product flock to festival near Burnside

Last year's Baconfest, the first-ever in Portland, attracted about 1,500 people while twice that many were expected on Saturday

Eating and profiting from food they love

VEGGIE FOODS have come a long way from the lacklustre –and unappetizing – veggie burgers of the fast-food eighties. It was hard for busy individuals with no time to cook to stay on healthy foods.

Beyond Vegetarian: The Vegan Diet

Eating Vegan Benefits Both Individual and Environmental Health With recent studies linking high red meat consumption with certain types of cancer and environmental ills such as global warming, avoiding animal products is one measure that a growing number of people are choosing to take to promote health in body and community. “To continue supporting the meat and dairy industries made me feel sick ...

SD Unified Working To Make School Lunches Healthier

What is the San Diego Unified School District doing to make school lunches healthier? We speak to the district's food services director, and dietitian about their plans to improve nutrition, and reduce childhood obesity by eliminating processed foods and buying more local produce.

The Raw Food Diet

The raw food diet is, of course, nothing new. There have always been those who have supported the many benefits of eating raw foods, and for good reason. Many studies support links between a diet rich in raw foods and a reduction in the incidence of many chronic diseases. A small number of Americans are taking this principle to heart by choosing a completely raw food diet. What is the Raw Food ...