Commercials on television push the same message – “Take your vitamins” -- but doctors are less urgent. A balanced diet of fresh nutritious  foods is still the ideal way to get  the vitamins and minerals that your body needs. A catch phrase form medical school holds that if you take extra vitamins and minerals, what you get is expensive urine. That’s because the kidneys filter excess water-soluble micronutrients from the bloodstream, treating them as waste, and elsewhere...

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This week for the first time in the presidential race, a poll gave Mitt Romney the edge over President Obama (only a tiny one, within the margin of error). One foresees that a simple message may prevail over a complex one. The simple message, which Romney endlessly repeats, is this: The President is a nice guy, but he's in over his head, and his wild spending has bankrupted the country. The complex message, which comes from Obama in mixed, varied, and confusing in ways, is this: We must revamp...

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Although pundits declared that Mitt Romney emerged from the contentious primary season in a damaged state, the Presidential race isn't as imbalanced as it should be. Romney is considered unlikable ,too rich to appeal to working-class voters, and he registers an "eh" from large swaths of the Republican base.   But President Obama finds himself in a trap.  Acting as the only adult in the room should have gradually shaken some sense into his critics. Obama doesn't name call or...

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In a world plagued by food shortage that are reaching crisis level, carbohydrates are the easiest salvation and yet the greatest temptation to abuse. Ironically, the same is true in prosperous countries but for opposite reasons. Where food is desperately needed, vast portions of the ecosystem are obliterated to make way for a small handful of crops, particularly rice and wheat, that can provide abundant, cheap calories to a mass population. In well-fed societies where food can be channeled...

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One thing makes this current depression, as economist Paul Krugman calls it, different from the Great Depression. The moral dimension has been left out. All the talk is about numbers. In the current debate over which priority is best for the economy, the right and left both promise job growth and reduced deficits.  But almost no one is addressing the moral dimension, which focuses on doing good.   The Great Depression was different.  The plight of the little guy was starkly...

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By Deepak Chopra, MD and Menas Kafatos, Ph.D., Vice Chancellor of Special Projects and Director, Fletcher Jones Endowed Professor of Computational Physics, Chapman University   Out of sight, and for most people out of mind, the physical world has been vanishing.  For over a hundred years quantum theory has shown that the solid objects of the physical world are made of invisible energy clouds. Atoms have no fixed physical properties until they are measured; therefore, it remains to be...

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This Sunday, the interview I did with Oprah will premiere on Super Soul Sunday (April 29th at 11am ET/10am CT on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network) followed by a repeat of my Lifeclass Tour: Spiritual Solutions filmed earlier at Radio City Music Hall.  It was several months...

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America, like every other nation, speaks peace and makes war. In its role as policeman for the world - a role performed spottily, with many arbitrary choices about when to fight - this country cherishes a reputation for peace-keeping. It hurts and baffles Americans to discover, as it did in the Bush era, how hated and disliked we are internationally. Countries that we think we are protecting turn out to view us with fear and suspicion. Since the end of World War II, America has been on a...

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The whole issue of fat in the diet should be simple, as it once was. Doctors followed the dictum of “fat puts on fat,” assigning blame for overweight on a fatty diet. Of the three major sources of calories – fats, proteins, and carbohydrates – the one with the most calories per gram (8) is fat. It only makes sense that cutting back on this component should lead to weight loss. But to say so is like time traveling back to 1950, before the great cholesterol...

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Whether the Democrats and Republicans like it or not, they are in bed together and may as well be married. Neither has a majority in both houses of Congress that can impose one-party rule. The filibuster provision in the Senate allows a minority to stymie the majority. The Constitution doesn't guarantee that political bedfellows will get along - there were no parties when the Constitution was written, and now we observe a marriage from hell. Unlike civil marriage, there's no chance for a...

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