The typical Thanksgiving can clock in at as many as 3,000 to 4,500 calories, an uncomfortably-full belly and a day of "physical activity" that includes little more than l[...]

  Calories give us energy, so why do big meals make us sleepy? This counterintuitive experience is a common one, and that goes double on Thanksgiving, where the average Americ[...]

Let's continue our exploration of cravings. In my last post, we discussed how stress causes us to crave carbs. I also mentioned that sometimes, simply being hungry will do the [...]

  Judy Warzenski didn't realize how bad her father, Donald's, memory had gotten until he turned to her sister Joyce and asked, "Where's the girl who was sitti[...]

    Think good health is a major predictor of happiness? A study says yes, but there's a catch.   The new study adds to the evidence examining the impact of heal[...]

Anais Fournier, a 14-year-old Maryland girl with a heart arrhythmia, drank two 24-ounce Monster Energy drinks in a 24-hour period. After six days in a coma, she was pronounced brai[...]

If skipping breakfast has ever left you with a craving for some high-calorie mac and cheese or a big, juicy burger, a small new study might explain the reason why.[...]

A little more than two and a half years ago, in a candlelit restaurant in Vienna, Austria, I sliced into a hunk of chicken cordon bleu, and declared defiantly to my boyfriend, "I c[...]

Beans really may be a magical fruit -- a new study in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine shows that for Type 2 diabetes patients, the more legumes you eat, the better your g[...]

Raw food diets have emerged as a pop culture preoccupation.[...]