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How to Be Well: Advice From Leading Experts

At least 80 percent of serious health problems such as heart disease or type 2 diabetes can be prevented. Ed Dodge, MD, has spent a lifetime treating patients, teaching students, interviewing experts and sharing the good news: There is much YOU can do to ensure a vibrant, long and healthy life!

Much of the advice here was first published in Dr. Dodge's Wellness Newsletter, which has featured books and interviews with leading experts from Johns Hopkins Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health, among others.

How to Have a (Healthy) Heart

Many leading experts agree: A good plant-based diet and an exercise routine can prevent heart disease. Explore Dr. Dodge's Wellness Newsletter to learn how to keep your heart healthy.

What we eat can heal or hurt us. Discover what the experts say about the power of food to prevent disease and even reverse serious symptoms.

Paleo? Vegan? Vegetarian? What do the real experts say about what's best? In his Wellness Newsletters, Dr. Dodge explores recent research and books about diets.

High rates of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease in the Western world can be traced to our unhealthy diet. Food author and expert Michael Pollan has a seven-word solution: "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants."

The relationships between food production, human health, and a healthy environment are much more intricate than most of us realize. Discover how leading scientists are working to ensure the future of the human race and planet Earth.

The Foundation for Healthy Africa provides student scholarships and funds projects that are designed to promote healthy lifestyles in Africa. We invite your support.

Colorful Veggie Supper

It’s said that a simple guideline to the nutritional value of a meal is its colorfulness. Our supper last evening qualified. It was colorful, delicious, and nutritious. [Beauty and taste are in the eye and tongue of the taster; the nutritional value is objectively verifiable!] What you see are carrots,…

Home-grown Blackeyed Peas!

Tonight we had organic home-grown blackeyed peas as our featured entrée. I picked the peas from our little box garden a couple days ago. After shelling them, I cooked them with tri-colored quinoa and diced tomatoes.The peas were really fresh when I shelled them, as opposed to the dried blackeyed…

Lessons from Nutritional Controversies

Nutrition has been surrounded by controversy for thousands of years, going back to biblical times, and it’s still true today. You can read or hear about some kind of nutritional controversy almost every day, and this is likely to remain true for a long time. Some controversies are due to…

The Cheese Trap

The Cheese Trap by Neal D. Barnard, MD, looks at the risks to health caused by cheese. Barnard is on the faculty of The George Washington School of Medicine. He is also founder of the Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine. When you look at his book cover, the A in…

Gorgeous ‘After-Easter’ Lilies

We saw some beautiful lilies when we were shopping last spring – so pretty that Carol said we should get them. We enjoyed them for several weeks, and then we enjoyed the beautiful foliage for months. By mid-winter they were history, but Carol put the root system into a larger…

USA Nutrition Crisis: Our Food is Killing Us

“Our country is facing a nutrition crisis,” states Dr. Mozaffarian, Dean of Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science & Policy. “Few other challenges cause more deaths, disability, and associated preventable health costs. Congress is actively debating how to improve health and reduce costs – fixing our food system is among…

How to Be Well: Advice From Leading Experts

How to Have a (Healthy) Heart

Food, Glorious Food!

Weighty Matters (All About Diets)

Benefits of Plant-Based Diets

Sustainable Agriculture

Foundation for a Healthy Africa

Facts That May Surprise You