A high-fat diet is not just bad for your heart, it can also throw off your body clock, setting off a chain reaction that inteferes with many metabolic functions, a study said.

In a recent academic review, a University of Minnesota professor in the School of Public Health has concluded that food, as opposed to specific nutrients, may be key to having a healthy diet.

A low-fat vegetarian diet is very efficient in terms of how much land is needed to support it. But adding some dairy products and a limited amount of meat may actually increase this efficiency, Cornell researchers suggest.

A healthy, natural alternative to energy bars was found by an American-Indian company: the Tanka Bar, made with bison meat and cranberries. The company, based on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, came up with the Tanka Bar as a modern-day spinoff of a traditional food of the Lakota tribe called "wasna" that sustained Great Plains Indians during long trips centuries ago.

The Alternate Healthy Eating Index measures and compares factors in a person’s diet that are strongly linked to reducing risk for cardiovascular disease.

Many people interest in a healthy diet program have started to use or consider Cabbage Soup Diet Program. This diet plan basically revolves around eating cabbage and making soups the main ingredient of which is cabbage.

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Essential fatty acids (EFAs) are a necessary part of an individual's healthy diet. New findings indicate that binge-drinking men have lower intakes of n-3 fats, one type of EFA.

The 5 Factor Diet Plan is the latest published book by Harley Pasternak. The health maestro of 5-Factor Fitness is back with another simple, memorable regimen: The 5-Factor Diet Plan tells you how to lose weight with five ingredients, five minutes, and five meals a day.

Patients with stage III colon cancer who have undergone surgery and chemotherapy with the goal of cure may have a higher risk of relapsing and dying early if they follow a predominantly "Western" diet of red meat, fatty foods, refined grains, and desserts, according to research led by investigators at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. The findings were presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology's annual meeting in Chicago.

Substituting soy nuts for other protein sources in a healthy diet appears to lower blood pressure in postmenopausal women, and also may reduce cholesterol levels in women with high blood pressure, according to a report in the May 28 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

If you feel that you are fated for cancer, your belief could turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy. According to a national survey of more than 6,000 U.S. adults published in the May issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a substantial number of American adults hold fatalistic beliefs about cancer and are correspondingly less likely to take basic steps to lower their cancer risk, such as exercising, quitting smoking and eating a healthy diet rich in fruits and vegetables.