Today we are on the brink of a much-needed transformative moment for health care. The U.S. health care system is designed to be reactive instead of preventive. The result is diagnoses that are too late and outcomes ...

Re-Think: A Path to the Future offers Palmisano’s personal perspective about the emergence of the first truly global economy and furthers the discussion about GIEs.

Poor nutritional profiles and oversized portions are expanding America's waistline

While summer league swimming can breed fierce rivalries between teams, there’s also a focus on the fun side of the whole experience.

Government benefits should only be spent on nutritious foods

Esselstyn, an author, former swimmer and firefighter, is on a crusade to transform the American diet.

A website and its popular video influencers claimed that the ticket to good health was to eat fruit—lots of it. The message proved seductive.

We are stuck in an earlier era of healthcare protocols and health-related habits. A major reset is needed. Life spans may improve thereby.

Fasting is a time-honored practice, often with a spiritual dimension. Its benefits to physical health are ignored or wrongly forgotten.

We consume foods that are designed to fool the brain into believing it has received nutrition when it hasn’t. Then we consume more of them.

How science and clever marketing can exploit brains that didn’t evolve in a world of treats.

There are so many diet programs to choose from—but do any of them work? One man’s try-anything search for a slimmer self.

An absence of social bonds and relationships of trust can affect our conduct and our health. Facebook ‘friendships’ are no substitute.

The efforts of scientists and investors to defy the aging process—and extend the human life span—are still in their infancy.

We are less careful about what we eat when we trick ourselves into believing that, in the future, we’ll revert to eating healthy food. We won’t. Matthew Rees reviews ‘Why You Eat What You Eat’ by Rachel Herz and ‘The Bad Food Bible’ by Aaron Carroll.

Two years ago, the upscale bottled-water company Fiji published a cheeky ad that read: "The label says Fiji because it's not bottled in Cleveland."

Starbucks, the Onion once reported, "continued its rapid expansion Tuesday, opening its newest location in the men's room of an existing Starbucks." In real life, it hasn't come to that -- yet.