Vegetarians can get all the essentials through the food they eat

Nutrition columnist Molly Kimball on eating right.

Expert Advice: Don’t starve yourself thin

QUESTION: A friend recently lost 25 pounds in six weeks. That seems unhealthy to me, and I felt like he was starving himself in a bad way.

In drought-prone Sahel, scientists roll out innovative system for producing vegetables

With a major famine unfolding in Niger and other countries of West Africa's dry Sahelian region, an agricultural scientist reports new progress in disseminating an innovative system for irrigated vegetable production -- a valuable option in a region that is highly dependent on subsistence rainfed cropping.