Breast cancer survivors can increase their odds of living a long, disease-free life by eating whole foods.

UCLA Operation Mend is a groundbreaking program serving military men and women with severe facial and other medical injuries.

Intermittent fasting has been practiced for centuries but is now making a pretty big comeback. Why? Because, research shows it can add years to your life.

GMOs are a growing health concern. But what are your other options? Would you know the difference between GMO, hybrid and heirloom seeds?

Experts estimate that 75% of overeating is due to emotions. It is a huge barrier to weight loss and a healthy lifestyle.

Oftentimes you mistake love for power, causing your relationship to become a power struggle... and unhealthy. But how can you walk away?

One in 10 teenage girls and 1 in 20 adults display symptoms of an eating disorder, but never get help. Why? And might someone you love be at risk?

Blue corn is loaded with the same type of antioxidants as blueberries and tart cherries. But, is it healthy? Or potentially harmful?

Learn which 5 dangerous ingredients may be lurking in your skincare products.

Nutrition is essential for preventing and managing diabetes, but balancing your diet isn't easy. What exactly is a healthy diabetes diet?

Join award-winning director, Benjamin Gilmour, on a heart-stopping, white-knuckle ride through the experiences of an ambulance medic.

Juice. It has been a staple of American breakfast tables for decades. Over the years it's been introduced to kids' packed lunches, vending machines and even toddlers' bottles. Not to mention the "adult" juice beverages, some of which are packed with things like antioxidants, vitamins and other nutrients.

Marketing tactics would have you believe that juice is a healthy beverage option – far better than sugary sodas or energy drinks. Phrases like "All Natural" and "No Sugar Added" bolster that mentality.

Unfortunately, for you, the consumer, these labels may mean nothing at all.

Anthocyanins are a type of plant-based antioxidant found in abundance but not exclusively in berries. Take, for instance, blue corn, which is regular yellow corn that has a high level of anthocyanins. The anthocyanins are actually what give it a bluish hue.

Fortunately, anthocyanins are good for you from any source, including corn. Just take a look at this short list of benefits that are commonly attributed to anthocyanins:

Enhance glucose metabolism and reduce glucose absorption
Induce cancer apoptosis (programmed cell death) in several cancer cell lines.
Metabolize toxins and inhibit DNA damage.
Inhibit inflammatory gene expression and reduce inflammation.
Reduce capillary permeability and fragility and boost nitric oxide.
Metabolize carcinogens.

So this is why I am interested in both blue corn and anthocyanins. See where I am headed now?

Methylfolates affect your weight, hormones and metabolism. They may also lead to depression.

Learn tips for natural dental health that can also help make you healthier overall.

Even Academy Award Winners worry about being healthy.

The Presidents' arteries, and what it means for you and yours.

George W had a positive stress test and received a stent to open up one (or was it more—we do not know) of his coronary (heart) arteries.

Was the stress test appropriate, and was the stent needed? Or could food choices have changed the need?

George W isn't the first President with arteries that show aging and plaque. Clinton's did. So did Reagan, and Ike and Harrison and Roosevelt's times two, and maybe every President. Just look at Obama's hair, or Bill C's heart arteries before he radically changed his diet and stress levels - or you can look at Ike or Harrison or - chose any President - it is a job laden with aging stress.

Inflammation is the way your body responds to a problem. Whether battling an infection or cancer, or healing from a bone fracture, your body needs to deliver powerful immune and repair cells to the impaired location through your bloodstream in order to fight and fix the problem.

Inflammation is really designed to be an acute process that gets in and out quickly. The longer the immune and repair cells stay in a location, the greater the chance they'll actually cause damage to surrounding healthy cells and tissues.

Chronic inflammation, simply put, is acute inflammation that did not resolve properly. The result is damage and disease. This is why we call chronic inflammation the common denominator of all age-related disorders.

Massage therapy used to be just a way to relax. But these techniques are now proving to be beneficial for a whole host of specific conditions.

Ten easy-to-follow tips for improving your nutritional state and well being.

Soy has long been marketed as healthy for you. But is it?

Kristin McGee, yoga and Pilates instructor to the stars, shares some helpful fitness tips.

With long work hours and increasing costs for child care, how can you even afford to be a working mom?

Many of the unhealthy habits kids pick up during childhood may increase cancer risk.

Magnesium deficiency is at epidemic proportions in the U.S. and could be a root cause of many of America’s health problems.

A well visit or sports physical can be very important for your child's overall health.

Learn how to tap into the power of self healing.

Concrete steps you can take to promote positive and lasting life change.

Morning people are generally more energetic, cheerful and satisfied with life. Can you make the switch?

Getting away on vacation can be a life-saver for some. But oftentimes this sense of freedom has a price: your waistline.

Maximize your health and happiness with advice from bestselling author and talk show host, Daphne Oz, daughter of Dr. Mehmet Oz.

Your furry friend is more than just a loving companion. In fact, pets may help cut your risk of heart disease.

Recently on the YOU The Owner’s Manual Radio Show, we featured a top medical story about how to prevent 80% of chronic disease. It related to food choices and portion size.

Wait! Don’t stop reading!

It really does get more interesting, because if each of us paid as much attention to restaurant menus as some my friends do to NBA scoring, we could save 600 billion a year at least. A year!

That would make North America as competitive for jobs as for energy independence. You’d be patriotic. And we are being helped. Most fast food restaurants have added an additional column of numbers on their menus. The new column contains the calorie content of the food items. However, apparently not too many people have taken an interest in the new information provided to help Americans get healthier.

A new study published in May 2013 highlights the ineffective attempt to encourage people to moderate calories. Nearly 2/3 of adults, adolescent, and school age children underestimated the number of calories in their fast food meal....and not by a little.

We are taught as children that in order to grow big and strong you need protein that comes from an animal. But is this true?

Ani Phyo, celebrity health and wellness expert, shares the many benefits of a raw food diet.

Welcome to Naturally Savvy! In this interview, you'll learn the background of your hosts and how you too can become naturally savvy.

Can cell phones really cause brain cancer? Get to the bottom of this and other common health questions.

Are you losing interest in life? Do you have a longer-than-normal case of the blahs? Beware the danger of apathy.

According to groundbreaking research, hopeful thoughts and behaviors can lead to well-being regardless of income level or IQ.

Everyone needs a little R&R every once in a while. But for those times when you need extra rejuvenation, could a wellness retreat help?

Organic farming can reveal the hidden connections between how you care for your body and how you grow your food.

Sustainable Health: How organic farming can reveal the hidden connections between your health and the food you eat.

From a recent behind-the-scenes discussion about red meat on YOU The Owner’s Manual Radio Show:

I said "It’s changing your microbiome." "Your What?" she said. "Your Microbiome, or the bacteria inside you." "Ugh" she said "That’s disgusting." "Maybe" I said, "but there may be something you could take or just avoiding it that could give you more energy for many years, as well as keep you healthy, and that’s invigorating."

You see, on a recent radio show, a guest with great expertise in this area, Adam Bernstein, MD,SciD, reviewed the hazards of eating red meat - and, yes, pork and bacon are red meats - a 20% increase in risk of stroke and type 2 diabetes for every 4 ounce portion you have a week. That is a doubling of risk for 5 servings (or one big portion, if you eat big at a place like Morton’s or The Heart Attack Grill. Yes, there is such a place).  

Yes, you are literally committing suicide by eating red meat.

The surprising and essential reasons to chug more water for the healthiest YOU.

But even Ohio, like you, gets a do-over.

Let’s see if Governor Kasich really cares about jobs for Ohio, and tax reduction for its citizens and businesses.

The largest cost increase that is causing the largest need for increased taxes in Ohio, is the removal by prior Governor Strickland of the 40 million for tobacco prevention in Ohio. I live in Ohio and work at the Cleveland Clinic, so I really care about Ohio. 

Since this move, Ohio spends less for tobacco prevention than any other state.

The Result? We have gone from 20.2 % smoking rate for adults in our state in 2009 (similar to the national average) to 25.4% now, while the rest of the USA has fallen to 19.2%  (CDC data from every two year surveys). 

Each smoker costs about $2000 more per year in direct medical costs.

We’ve talked frequently on YOU The Owner's Manual Radio Show about the feminization of male tadpoles when exposed to ponds with plastic bottles made with BPA.  

BPA is a plasticizer common in baby bottles in the plastic baby bottle era of 1970 to 2008, and is common in thermal receipts.  

It acts to disrupt testosterone function and maybe to mimic estrogen. Those changes are thought to be very powerful: it appears male infants function with certain brain structures more like females - more of the FOX2 protein, which leads to more chatter (I kid you not) when the mom has a high blood level of BPA during pregnancy.  And more asthma in such children too.

Now something even more serious.

Exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) and it’s cousin BPS in the womb or as an infant increases the risk of childhood learning disorders, by changing the function of a gene important to learning in kids (and even us adults.)

These genes produce a protein that gets chloride out of cells. Not enough chloride out, poor development of connections, which means poor learning.

Small amounts of BPA and BPS seem to interfere with brain development by blocking these genes.

Even worse, maybe this endocrine disruptor is responsible for some of the substantial increase in autism in the last two decades.

I exercise every Saturday morning listening to the Fox News business block to catch up on all the stuff I miss in news that will effect the health of our nation’s economy.  

I know so little, that I think they are “gods of finance”. But when they talked about medical costs recently, they knew so little and had their facts so confused, that I thought they must be shills for that true, but unrelated to the real problem, 16 page piece on medical costs in Time Magazine.

How could the Forbes and Fox gangs have it as wrong as Time did, when their own newspaper (Murdock run, like Fox) pointed out the folly of the Time piece?  The Forbes gang just didn’t give it to you straight on this topic…and it makes me wonder …should I stop watching them on Saturday mornings? Maybe just watch the recorded Oz shows, instead?

Let's get it straight.

High-fructose corn syrup is a common sweetener in sodas and fruit-flavored drinks, but may not be so sweet for your health.