Dieting and weight loss often go hand in hand. It makes perfect sense actually. If you diet and watch what you eat, then you will lose weight. It should be that simple, but sometimes it just isn’t. Dieting incorporates everything such as the weight loss plan you choose, the right and wrong ways to lose [...]

When several weight loss attempts go by unsuccessfully, you can start to feel really bad about yourself. You probably feel pretty low and because you are not satisfied with your body, with the way that you look, you are letting people see that because you have very poor confidence. Losing weight can be tuff when [...]

As the H1N1 swine flu virus continues to wax and wane in different parts of the country, U.S. health officials said they were working as fast as possible to learn as much as they can about the novel pathogen before the return of the flu season in the fall. The reason for the urgency: Some [...]

An overhaul of the health care system won’t pass the U.S. House of Representatives unless it includes a government-financed insurance plan for consumers, the head of the House’s tax-writing committee said. Representative Charles Rangel said a public plan is essential to compete with private insurers and hold down medical costs. A Senate proposal that [...]

New findings from The Impact of Home and Community Gardening in America, a survey from the National Gardening Association, indicate that gardens in America are more popular than ever before. An estimated 7 million households in the United States will grow their own fruit, vegetables, herbs and plants this year, a 19 percent increase [...]

President Obama vowed in an interview Saturday that his health care plan will provide “basic coverage” to all Americans – a linguistically different choice than “universal” care – but reiterated his commitment to the idea of reform. Speaking to C-SPAN Political Editor Steve Scully in the White House Library, Obama also said the country [...]

programs, South Bay health care providers who depend on state funding aren’t sure how much more they can trim. But if the governor’s proposed cuts are approved – cuts that health advocates describe as the most profound roll-back in health services in California’s history – clinics from Hawthorne to San Pedro will have to take [...]

We have a whodunit on our hands here in California. Unfortunately it’s a serious case, because the health effects will be far-reaching, and the ripples will hurt both people and science. Under the cloak of the California budget crisis, a proposal has emerged from the Governor’s office to completely eliminate California’s Office of Environmental Health [...]

Bottles with bisphenol A, a chemical that’s linked to health problems including diabetes and heart disease, are leaching it into our bodies. Harvard University researchers reported the first-ever finding yesterday, which showed that when people drank from BPA bottles, the chemical ended up in their urine at a concentration more than two thirds higher [...]

Countries should be ready for more serious H1N1 flu infections and more deaths from the newly discovered virus, World Health Organization chief Margaret Chan said on Friday.  The highly contagious strain must be closely monitored in parts of Asia, Africa and South America where the winter season is beginning in case it mixes with [...]