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Obesity Linked to False Perception of Food Scarcity

There’s an old joke about being on a see-food diet (“I see food, I eat it”). Newly published research suggests this obesity-inducing, just-say-yes response to gastric temptation may be based on a...

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How Should We Evaluate Lap-Band Candidates?

You’ve tried Atkins, South Beach and Nutrisystem. You’ve enlisted the help of a personal trainer, busted your butt at your gym’s boot camp and sweated it out in Bikram yoga. Desperate to trim inches,...

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Less Stress May Mean Less Fat

Obesity has generally been explained as the interaction of three factors: diet, exercise and genetics. Researchers, though, have begun to look at another element — particularly as it relates to...

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Some People Do Heed Fast-Food Calorie Data

You’re next in line to get the McDonald’s burger you’ve been craving and so close that you can almost taste it. But there’s just one problem: Right next to the words “Double Quarter-Pounder with...

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Sweetener Death Match: Sugar vs. Syrup

The idea that high-fructose corn syrup infuses lots of our food has left a bitter taste in many consumers’ mouths. So the corn industry has started a public relations campaign on behalf of its...

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Don’t Tax Soda, Tax Sweeteners

Public-health officials and policymakers across the United States have been talking a lot lately about tackling the epidemic of obesity through smaller nudges like a per-ounce tax on soda. Not...

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FDA Cracks Whip on Lap-Band Marketing

In July, we asked how candidates for Lap-Bands — surgically implanted belts that wrap around the stomach and can be tightened to make it smaller — should be evaluated after the U.S. Food and Drug...

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Can Chocolate Make You Thin?

In recent years, a growing body of research has pointed to the benefits of chocolate — it’s loaded with antioxidants and improves everything from blood pressure to cholesterol levels — and now,...

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Mice Losing Weight With Less Exercise?

What if there was a pill that would allow you to add lean muscle mass and lower your cholesterol and insulin levels, all while chowing down on your favorite high-fat, high-sugar foods? Scripps Research...

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Calm Down, Step Away From the Burger

If it’s true that we are what we eat, then people who eat a lot of trans fatty acids — common in fast foods ­— might be a bit touchier than the rest of us. In a new study of eating habits and behavior,...

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High Calorie Diets Can Mean Memory Loss

Yet another reason not to overeat: According to a recent study from the Mayo Clinic, there is a link between memory loss and a high calorie diet. People over 70 who consumed more than 2,143 calories a...

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Banded, Stapled, Saved

Quitting smoking, the old saw goes, is easy to do—I’ve done it dozens of times. It’s staying clean that poses the real challenge. So, too, with losing weight: despite the pills, pedometers, hypnosis,...

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The Final Feast: Last Meals on Death Row

What would you eat if you knew it was your last meal? For some people—death-row inmates facing imminent execution—the question is not a hypothetical one. In one of the most morbidly fascinating...

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When Working Out Doesn’t Work

There’s a park near my house where I like to run just before dinner. Afterward, my favorite meal to cook—especially when my girlfriend is out of town—has a kind of simplicity that would make even a...

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Is Sugar the Next Tobacco?

Among the least likely viral megahits on YouTube is a 90-minute lecture by the food scold and pediatric endocrinologist Robert Lustig entitled “Sugar: The Bitter Truth.” He delivers it in a windowless...

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Watch America Become Obese and Engulfed by the Ocean

If we don’t do anything, we will all be overweight and floating in water, pecked at by seagulls who’ve leveraged the new conditions to wrestle control of most major American cities from our decaying,...

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Can We Expect to See the Dollar Menu Devalued?

“Value menus” increasingly seem a bad physical deal for consumers—and now perhaps a bum fiscal deal for fast-food purveyors. The cheap chow, long a target for nutrition-focused researchers and...

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Pound Foolish

Fat is killing us, or so we’re told. Americans’ sugar-saturated diets and couch-bound lifestyles have apparently produced an epidemic of heart disease and diabetes, cancer and infertility, depression...

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Supermarkets: Enter Hungry, Exit With Chips and Chocolate

You know the cliché that it’s unwise to shop for food when you’re hungry? New research suggests it’s absolutely true. Two experiments—one in a lab, another that tracked actual supermarket...

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How to Stay Healthy Even if You Can’t Avoid Stress on the Job

Being under stress at work is tied to a higher risk of heart problems, new research confirms—but putting down the beer bottle and going for a walk may help. Researchers found that job strain—defined as...

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