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[...]

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[...]

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[...]

A recent study claims that junk food could be bad for your memory, and may lead to dementia, and trigger Alzheimer's. Junk food is already linked with obesity and diabetes, especia[...]

New research explores how satiation, defined as the drop in liking during repeated consumption, can be a positive mechanism when it lowers the desire for unhealthy foods.[...]

Here's a thought: what if we ban the word "healthy food" from our culinary vocabulary? I'm not talking about banning foods that are considered healthy. I'm talking about changing t[...]

Today, just over a third of U.S. adults are obese. By 2030, 42 percent will be, says a forecast released Monday.[...]

Obesity in America is a crisis that threatens national security -- and urgent action is needed, says the Institute of Medicine.[...]

A small but growing number of researchers believe that environmental pollutants and industrial chemicals are to blame for the obesity epidemic.[...]

The obesity rate among Mexican-American adults aged 20 to 74 increased from about 21 percent to nearly 35 percent between 1982 and 2006, a new federal report reveals. In addition, [...]