A new study has found that two or more servings of strawberries or blueberries a week lowers the risk of Parkinson's disease by close to 25 percent compared with individuals who consume berries less than once a month.

Trying to make sense of what healthy cooking oils to use can be a daunting task.  One one hand, you want to cook with an oil that has a high flash point, but you also need to use an oil that has a healthy balance of Omega 3 to Omega 6 fatty acids.  Check out our healthiest cooking oil comparison chart to help alleviate the confusion!

Jon Barron guest stars in Joyce Riley's talk show, The Power Hour, and discusses the benefits of dietary supplements, overall nutrition and how it can affect a person's well-being, and the information found in Lessons From the Miracle Doctors. 

A recent study found that people on high fat diets gain less weight than people on high protein diets with equivalent calorie content -- but low-protein eaters store more than 90 percent of their weight as fat.

According to a study of over 7000 individuals just released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), just about every single American -- 90 percent of those over the age of two -- consumes considerably too much sodium.

Researchers have found that one out of every four teens and young adults up to age 34 admitted to binge drinking within the previous month, as did one out of every six people over the age of 35. In other words, 38 million Americans ranked among the binge-drinking public at the time of the survey.

Obesity statistics in the US convey a sad story:  more than two-thirds of all adults over the age of 20 now qualify as overweight or obese.  Yet, in spite of the endless array of available diet programs, products, and the constant media coverage highlighting the dangers of being overweight, we keep getting fatter and fatter, with obesity rates still on the climb. While many blame a willpower deficit for the failure of 95 percent of all diet attempts, a series of new studies has shed some light on a few other possible reasons that all the diet knowledge in the universe doesn't seem to be making a dent.

Beans just might be the Rodney Dangerfield of the food world.  To paraphrase the comedian, they just get no respect.  Beans are the butt of many jokes because they have a reputation for causing flatulence.  But new research may be able to set the record straight in defense of the bean: Not all beans are equally gassy, and even those that may cause gas really aren't so bad.

According to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, the majority of teens in the United States do not consume the recommended daily amount of fruit or vegetables. The survey showed that about one-quarter of the participating high school students ate fruit less than once a day and approximately one-third ate vegetables less than once a day (unless you count pizza as a vegetable.)