Health & Fitness

The dangers of chemicals used in cosmetics have become widely known, but the U.S. has done little about it.

Common chemicals found in your everyday personal-care products are proving - more and more - to be toxic. 

Most cafeterias don’t have a salad bar, but school districts are quick to cart in fast food and soda machines.

Switching to an organic lifestyle can help you avoid cancer and live toxin-free.

Yoga, a centuries-old practice, is picking up steam in mainstream western medicine.

School lunches that are good for kids — and that kids will actually eat? That's a job for America's top chefs.

Several of the nation's largest food companies say they are going on a diet.

In a gym at a tiny college in the capital of the most obese state in the nation, state Rep. John Hines dropped his chest to the floor, let out an "Aaaarrrrgggh!" and forced through a few final pushups.

Fifty-eight year old Dawn Dawson loves three things in this world, her daughter, her cats and her morning can of Coca-Cola.  “I’ve cut down in the past three years because of the sugar content, but I still get up in the morning and have a Coke,” said Dawn.  Dawn is not alone in her addiction to what some health officials call ‘liquid candy’.

Too much cancer screening, too many heart tests, too many cesarean sections. A spate of recent reports suggest that too many Americans — maybe even President Barack Obama — are being overtreated.