10 foods to help boost your brain power

Just like the right diet can prevent heart disease, high blood pressure, or cancer, health experts are finding that certain foods may boost your mind.

Dr. Paul G. Donohue: Can cholesterol become too low?

Dear Dr. Donohue: I am a 78-year-old male and have blood tests and physicals every year. In 2001, my cholesterol was 225 mg/dL (5.8 mmol/L). Every year it was lower, until this year it was 94 (2.4). My LDL was 29 (.75), and my triglycerides 36 (0.4). My weight stays between 138 and 144 pounds. I am 5 feet 6 inches tall. My appetite is good. I am not nor have I ever been on a low-cholesterol diet ...

Yellow Brick Road to weight loss

If your doctor recommended you lose just 10 pounds, would you? What if that doctor were Dr. Oz - the one dubbed "America's doctor" by Oprah, "Dr. Does-It-All" by the New York Times, and "the hunk in blue scrubs" by adoring female television viewers? Dr. Mehmet Oz has taken the pulse of America, and he's on a mission of education and motivation to counteract the nation's No. 1 health epidemic ...

Easy approach to weight loss just doesn't work, says expert

Exercise and nutrition are the chocolate and peanut butter of good health. They go together like biceps and triceps, barbells and dumbbells, squats and inopportune flatulence ... well, you get the idea.

Does birth control make you fat? Is steel-cut oatmeal really better?

Q:Since my daughter starting using the NuvaRing for birth control a year ago, she's gained 40 pounds. She exercises every day and sticks to a strict diet, but she hasn't lost an ounce! Does birth control prevent women from losing weight? — Anonymous