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Of all the messages in “Fed Up,” there are three facts everyone should remember: all calories are not created equal; excessive weight and poor health are directly related to diet; and America cannot exercise its way out of its current obesity...

By Dr. Mercola American children are hitting puberty earlier than ever before, and the health ramifications of this go far beyond the obvious emotional challenges it may produce. A recent longitudinal1 study, published in the November 2013 issue of...

By Dr. Mercola Sweetened beverages have been identified as a major contributor to the obesity and diabetes epidemics around the world, and in light of the scientific evidence, many public health organizations are now starting to take a stand against...

Have a Koch and diabetes. Big Soda responds to a cup-size limit by aligning with the NAACP, nasty PR and the Kochs. Adapted from Dr. Tom Farley’s "Saving Gotham: A Billionaire Mayor, Activist Doctors, and The Fight for Eight Million Lives" When I first...

When I first came to the New York City health department in the summer of 2007, then-health commissioner Tom Frieden asked me what he should do about obesity. What was a middling problem in the 1970s had by then erupted into a public health crisis killing...