Raw Food Diet

Dr. Barbara Royal consults at every Chicago zoo, has administered acupuncture to elephants and zebras, scrubbed oil from otters and tagged wild owl nests. She's treated arthritic camels, tarantulas with torn skin, and a starving spider monkey. But...

For evidence that eating vegetables (especially raw ones) is good for you, look no further than Karyn Calabrese. You'll probably find her perched at the desk in her office, one floor up from the restaurant, cafe and holistic therapy center on North...

With all the comments and questions I received about what everyone was feeding their dogs and cats, I couldn’t help but continue my rant about marketing to all of us pet owners and how we buy into it. Even as veterinarians (as if we should know...

The other day we dined on delicious "fried" avocado mini-tostados, tasty olive pizettas and scrumptious garden tahini veggie wraps. We adored the chocolate ganache with sea salt and coconut butter. What was amazing was that every bit of this excellent...

Food is one of life's pleasures, but it can also be like a drug. "I actually felt a physical pull to food when I saw something I couldn't help myself." Two years ago Dallas resident Miranda Martinez reached her breaking point. "I had completely given up...

Mix a dash of business savvy, a touch of tenacity and a whole lot of raw chocolate and you've got Erika Martin's recipe for success. Her raw and vegan-friendly chocolate company, Blissed Out, is changing the way our city eats sweets. And man, do they...

To read the Internet ads, you'd think that our bodies were awash in "toxins" -- usually unspecified -- and that we should therefore go to dramatic lengths, such as "colon cleansing" and chelation, to get rid of all this bad stuff. Don't believe it. Or to...