Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In a bold new experiment, researchers asked Tanzanian men to swap their plant-based, fiber-rich diets for a Western-style regimen ...

Obesity caused by a high-fat Western diet damages the pancreas, affecting insulin production and blood sugar control even after dietary changes and weight is lost. The new research suggests that early ...

A new study published in Nature Medicine has drawn a sharp line between dietary habits and chronic inflammation—an underlying cause of a vast number of lifestyle diseases. The study’s striking ...

Chronic inflammation is a major driver of lifestyle-related diseases, like heart disease and type 2 diabetes. New research highlights how profoundly a modern Western diet, high in processed foods and ...

You are what you eat. This simple adage serves us well when we think about a healthy diet full of a variety of whole foods brimming with protein, natural fats, and carbohydrates packed with all the ...

A switch of just two weeks from a traditional African diet to a Western diet causes inflammation, reduces the immune response to pathogens, and activates processes associated with lifestyle diseases.