Introducing the Absolute Scale of Food Healthfulness
A ban of junk-food advertising relies on a new measure of nutrition. 01.25.2008
Further Proof: Exercising Is More Important Than Dieting
The treadmill and General Mills can both be your best friends. 01.14.2008
Big Boned: How Your Skeleton Can Make You Fat
Bones help fix themselves by controlling the body's metabolism. 11.23.2007
Inside the Strange World of Sleep Eaters
Open wide for buttered cigarettes, Brillo pads, and lots of gooey junk food. 08.02.2007
Health FAQs: Diet and Genetics
If protein, fat, and carbs are bad, what do you eat? 06.06.2007
The Open Secret to Successful Dieting
No short-cuts involved, just straight-up arithmetic 06.06.2007
Fat Is Not the Enemy
A low-fat diet won't necessarily make you thinner... or healthier. 05.11.2007
20 Things You Didn't Know About... Obesity
Money for getting squashed in your airplane seat, our country's fattest state, the Monster Thickburger, and more. 07.24.2006
Fat Belly Genes
Blame your genes when you can't fit your jeans. 06.13.2006
Fat Gene Found
Frustrated dieters finally have hard evidence. 04.24.2006
Vital Signs: Why Does Her Belly Hurt?
Complications from surgery provide an important lesson for ER doctors 03.10.2006
Vital Signs
Benign but irritating skin eruptions signal much more serious internal troubles 11.22.2005
I'm Not Fat—I've Just Got Fat Bacteria
05.05.2005
Gaining Pounds, Losing Years
Obesity can shorten your life. 03.17.2005
Extra Helpings for the Holy
11.25.2004
The All-You-Can-Eat Gene
10.01.2004
What Does Science Say You Should Eat?
Most diets aren't realistic or advisable, including the U.S. agriculture department's famous food pyramid. Instead, a Harvard scientist recommends a new way of eating based on the world's largest and longest food study. 02.05.2004
Neuroscience
01.02.2004
The Greatest Unanswered Questions of Medical Science
Where the money and brainpower will go in the next decade 12.03.2003
Is Overeating an Addiction?
05.01.2001
By the Numbers: Obesity Goes Global
04.01.2001
The Chemistry of . . . Fat Substitutes
The Next Generation of fake fats has arrived, but does anyone want them? 03.01.2001
Fat Genes
He's already proved you wrong. 05.01.2000
Vital Signs
An insidious--and often undiagnosed--sleep disorder robs a woman of her ability to take in oxygen 05.01.2000
Lethal Snoring
07.01.1999
Why We Get Fat
The good news is recent research indicates fat might not be your fault. The bad news is you might not be able to do much about it 04.01.1999
The Mouse on the Left Needs Leptin
01.01.1996