Having a Dear Friend Over for Dinner Imagine you are hosting a person you really care about at your home for dinner. Would you intentionally serve this person a meal that would com[...]

  Cravings for unhealthy foods often go hand in hand, which isn’t good news for young waistlines.   Research published in the journal Pediatrics shows that the more[...]

  A review of 33 trials involving 73,589 men, women and children in America, Europe and New Zealand found that choosing low fat foods helped people lose around 3.5 pounds, sli[...]

Some experts say food marketing is fueling the childhood obesity epidemic. Now, a new study shows food advertising could affect the brains of obese children differently. Ines Ferre[...]

Whatever your cultural or ethnic background, conversations inevitably turn to food this time of year. Do you celebrate Thanksgiving or just "get together"? Do you eat mea[...]

Though my regular job is helping adults achieve a healthy weight, I also work with teens. Sadly, the epidemic of teen obesity means I can find them anywhere — even here in Na[...]

Children and adolescents consume more calories and soda and have poorer nutrient-intake on days they eat at either fast-food or full-service restaurants, as compared to days they e[...]

The prestigious medical journal "JAMA" recently devoted an entire issue to the topic of obesity — from research on risk factors for childhood obesity to outcomes of[...]

The prevalence of overweight has increased in adults and children and shows no signs of decreasing. As I have previously written, large portions of unhealthy high caloric foods hav[...]

Resistance to, if not outright rebellion against, implementation of the Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act in the nation's schools is fast becoming notorious.[...]