What if you suddenly discovered that a dangerous, life-threatening substance had made its way into nearly half the foods in your supermarket? It’s not grocery terrorism or product tampering. It’s trans fat, and the FDA estimates that 2,500 to 5,600...

When researchers go looking for trends that might explain the nation’s obesity epidemic, most agree on at least one thing: Americans have a drinking problem. It’s not only alcohol. It’s everything—sodas, sport drinks, specialty coffees and tea...

With two out of three Americans overweight today, it’s getting harder to believe that all this extra fat is a simple problem of self-indulgence or poor personal discipline. In fact, researchers and clinicians from various sciences say unequivocall...

With two out of three Americans overweight today, we’re learning more and more about the numerous ways that carrying excess weight can really affect our health and diminish our quality of life. But you may not have heard the hard facts about how ov...

Talk about breast cancer and naturally, people think of the disease that is the number one cancer among women. But the truth is that breast cancer is on the rise among both women and men, and researchers think the national obesity crisis may be to blame....

In the pantheon of contemporary culture, neither Adonis nor Aphrodite has love handles. But two thirds of Americans do. Yet, contrary to conventional stereotypes, their excess weight hasn’t hampered their interest in having a healthy sex life. In fa...

Do you sometimes feel like food is the enemy? If you’re overweight, the odds are high that you view food with deep suspicion. But even if you’re not overweight, you might have the same dim view. Many normal weighted people do. Defining food as the ...

If you’re one of those people who can’t stand all the counting and tracking and adding and charting that some diets require, you could find a refuge in one simple numerical scale: the glycemic index. On the other hand, you might find it another madden...