Food & Nutrition

What is going on at Columbia University? The prestigious school, located in the Upper West Side of New York City, has employed a growing list of quacks that is thoroughly undermining its great reputation.

For years now, activists such as CSPI  have been agitating for a tax on sodas and other sugary soft drinks. They have been making headway under the rubric of aiming to improve public health.

For all of you who are too refined to be rabid fans of 24, please go to PBS, where you can immerse yourself in such delights as "Farm to Table Family" or "Wai Lana Yoga."

By Stephanie Bucklin, Live Science Contributor Men still aren't living as long as women — and that holds true for humans' primate cousins as well, a new study shows.

Many years ago, my large family would traditionally gather in Connecticut to enjoy each other's company on Thanksgiving.

Tossing and turning in bed all night long, it can feel as if you're the only person in the world unable to sleep. It may be a small comfort to learn, however, that you aren't the only one. Millions of other Americans also struggle to sleep.

The folks over at the Environmental Working Group and NRDC must be greeting a new environmental study with mixed emotions. 

Asking hard questions is one of the true delights of being a science journalist. People's assumptions, understanding of the facts, and inherent biases should be subjected to scrutiny.

You can go organic, or 'all natural' or non-GMO or even vegan, but what you can't do this holiday season, is avoid all the chemicals in your holiday dinner!

While you're out food shopping in the final days leading up to Thanksgiving, pulling together all the traditional dishes associated with the big meal, just make sure to take one quarter out of your pocket and leave it at home, since you won't need