One of my best friends is a breast cancer survivor. She went vegan after her mastectomy two decades ago and now eats plenty of fruits, vegetables, beans, nuts, whole grains, and soy foods, including tofu, tempeh, miso, edamame, soy milk, and veggie burgers. Study after study has shown that soy foods are beneficial for women, including breast cancer survivors, and …

Open any health or women's magazine, and you'll eventually come across a recommendation to "eat more fish." Fish perplexingly continues to be touted as a "health food," despite the fact that many of the species that people commonly consume-most notably tuna-are contaminated with mercury and other toxins. So why is it considered "healthy"? Because-compared to other meats, which are loaded …

It's exciting that so many people are ready to give peas a chance, so to speak! It's easy being vegan, and the following tips should help get you started-or help you persuade your worrywart friends and relatives that vegan foods are nutritious, delicious, and widely available.

1. Just Veg Out: For optimal health, eat an array of fruits, vegetables, legumes, whole …

Many of us would be about as likely to toss back energy drinks as we would be to take up chainsaw juggling. As it turns out, one of the dangerous substances found in energy drinks is also found in meat.

Red meat, like energy drinks, contains L-carnitine, an amino acid that helps transport fatty acids into cells' fuel-production chambers so that …

If I had a dollar for every time someone asked me, "But where do you get your protein?" I might have enough money to buy a lifetime supply of tofu.

It's easy to get all the proteins that your body needs while also enjoying many of your favorite vegan foods. Ironically, what people …

One of my all-time favorite movie lines is from the blockbuster hit The Full Monty: "Anti-wrinkle cream there may be, but anti–fat bastard cream there is not." Makes me smile every time. Of course, even the best anti-aging creams can only do so much. For healthy skin, you have to start with a healthy …

Want to take the starch out of colon cancer? Then perhaps it's time to add a little more starch to your diet—resistant starch, that is.

Resistant starch is a type of carbohydrate that can't be digested in your small intestine and enters your colon roughly in the same form as it was on your dinner plate. According to a …