Forget fad diets pushing cabbage soup, weight-loss shakes or maple syrup. Swapping fatty foods for low-fat alternatives will keep you slim – and now there's World Health [...]

  In recent years, some research has suggested that a high-fat diet may be bad for the brain, at least in lab animals. Can exercise protect against such damage? That question [...]

But fat and calories aren't enough to stop many fair-goers from indulging in such creations once a year, even when healthy options are available. Fair foods can be enjoyed in mo[...]

The number of adults who say they have had high cholesterol at some point in their lives has gone up, and that may not be a bad thing, according to the CDC.[...]

Filmmaker Byron Hurt has managed to make a documentary about how his soul-food-loving father died of pancreatic cancer and at the same time how America is battling obesity and weig[...]

There’s been a lot of buzz today about Paula Deen announcing that she has type 2 diabetes. And there’s been no shortage of criticism that her decadent, high-fat cooking has caught[...]