The time for school halls to be teeming with chattering students is approaching. While shopping for school supplies, families shouldn't neglect to check on kids' health too.

For pregnant women, nutrition takes on a whole new role and importance because of the physical changes in the mother’s body and the impact on the unborn child.

When people are trying to lose weight, they can spend a lot of time considering which foods are better to eat. Followers of a new weight loss method suggest people should spend more time not eating at all.

Does your stomach get a little rumbly after eating certain foods? It’s pretty obvious that pigging out on pizza, ice cream, candy and French fries may give you a stomach ache, but what about when symptoms develop after more typical meals?

Eating lots of sugar has long been linked to increasing diabetes risk. Whether sugar causes diabetes is unclear, but evidence is mounting that too much of a sweet thing can trigger the disease.

Some people expect to experience aches, pains and reduced mobility in certain areas of their body as they grow older. For many people, these aches and pains are the result of osteoarthritis (OA), the most common type of arthritis.

Carbohydrates include some of the tastiest foods out there, like pasta and pie. But they also get a bad rap when it comes to their nutritional contributions. Do they deserve it?

Overactive bladder, or OAB, is often an uncomfortable and frustrating condition. OAB can involve symptoms like incontinence (the leakage of urine), feeling the need to urinate urgently and frequently and nocturia (having to get up multiple times during the night to urinate). Thankfully for patients, dietary changes can sometimes help ease unwelcome symptoms.  The National Association for Continence (NAFC) takes care to stress, “There is no ‘diet’ to cure incontinence.”  However, some patients do see an improvement in symptoms by making certain changes.  What works for...

Being obese is dangerous for your health. And so is being overweight, right? Well, yes. Or no. Or maybe. Or, it kind of depends. The answer is complicated.

While energy drinks may give you a lift, consuming too many can be unhealthy. Caffeine levels are currently not listed on these drinks, but recent FDA investigations may change that.