The Power of Lifestyle – Page 3 – Enjoy Vibrant Life and Health

Enjoy Vibrant Health: 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.

Tree Trunks

I enjoy my daily walk, especially after a day of rain. Much of my attention this morning was on the landscaping of the homes I passed. It’s always interesting to see changes in the yards as homeowners work on them and as the seasons progress. In addition, I’m always looking…

Cabbage Patch Treasures

Cabbage Patch dolls were a huge fad 40 years ago, so popular that they caused marketplace frenzy in late 1983. Stores couldn’t keep up with demand and shopping conditions literally became chaotic. Shoppers who couldn’t get one for Christmas were frantic. Clips about the cabbage patch doll craze still show…

Enjoy Vibrant Health: 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

Tree Trunks

Cabbage Patch Treasures