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Between them, Kristin Richmond and Kirsten Tobey have worked on Wall Street, traveled the world and taught school from East Africa to Ecuador. Now they make lunch for a living.

It's a fact of the grocery store that the most healthy food often has the least marketing muscle behind it. The best source of fiber and vitamins are fresh vegetables and fruit, and yet it's the processed, packaged junk food fortified with vitamin and fiber powder that screams for attention.

In the same way that children wish for super hero powers, most of us would like to possess the ability to fight off the threat or onset of germs, the common cold or flu.

Well, no, not if you're really clinically depressed, but studies have proven that some simple changes in your lifestyle can help combat the holiday blues. According to WebMD.com, "Dietary changes can bring about changes in your brain structure, both chemically and physiologically. Those changes can improve mood and mental outlook."

The dietary-supplement industry is fighting a bid by U.S. Sen. John McCain to force it to disclose ingredients and register with the Food and Drug Administration.

Do you pop vitamin pills daily to keep yourself healthy? If you do you're likely in the majority, because half of adults take vitamins daily. But are you taking the right ones and in the right amount?

General Mills announced today a public commitment to reduce sugar in cereals advertised to children to single-digit grams of sugar per serving.

Reinhold Vieth is frustrated. A thin, bald professor at the University of Toronto's Department of Laboratory Medicine and Patho-biology, Vieth is among the most knowledgeable people in the world on the subject of vitamin D.

The best way to get enough vitamin D is through food, right? No, according to the latest Harvard Heart Letter, which says supplements are the best way for Americans to raise their body's level of vitamin D, which in most cases too low right this moment.

Americans have heard a lot of mixed messages about vitamins and may be wondering if they are safe and effective. As with most health questions,

It is time that the actions of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) speak for themselves and Americans began to question their own absorbent use and blind-loyalty to FDA approved drugs.

All mothers-to-be should be weighed regularly during pregnancy to help combat the many dangers to women's and babies' health from maternal obesity, a group of medical experts is urging.

Food for children is a subject that calls for great attention, as it is directly connected to their mental, physical, and emotional development.

The British television presenter and lifestyle coach Amanda Hamilton shares her views on health and nutrition.

At any given time 15 to 35% of people are trying to loose weight and the statistics are not in their favor. The fact is that 90 to 95 % of those people will fail to loose weight and successfully keep it off.

Vitamin D is one of my favorite topics to share valuable information about, as the research that continues to come out is just so exciting.

Acupuncturists, dietary-supplement makers and other alternative health practitioners, some of whose treatments are considered unproven by the medical establishment, would be brought more squarely into the mainstream of American medicine under the health legislation now before the Senate.

What's the nation's No. 1 killer of women? Heart disease. It causes one death every 35 seconds.

Obesity has reached what some feel is epidemic proportions in this country as well as around the world. Today nearly two thirds of American adults are considered overweight or obese.