According to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, a high blood pressure diagnosis results when you have repeated readings of 140 over 90.

Animals face similar health issues as humans do when they gain weight.

About 10 million people in the U.S. are estimated to have osteoporosis and 34 million have low bone mass.

Name the five tastes that your tongue can detect and your brain can decode.

People expect safe food, and restaurants have a vested interest in providing safe food.

People expect safe food, and restaurants have a vested interest in providing safe food.

National studies have shown that men are less likely than women to alter their diets to prevent health problems, even when a health issue has been diagnosed.

With about two-thirds of Americans overweight or obese, the companies that sell weight loss programs have plenty of potential customers.

According to a 2004 report from the National Fire Data Center, more than 156,000 kitchen fires occurred in the U.S. in 2002.

As of Feb. 14, 288 cases of salmonellosis in 39 states were linked to contaminated peanut butter.