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...
View ArticleHow 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,...
View ArticleLess 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...
View ArticleSome 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...
View ArticleSweetener 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...
View ArticleDon’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...
View ArticleFDA 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...
View ArticleCan 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,...
View ArticleMice 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...
View ArticleCalm 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,...
View ArticleHigh 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...
View ArticleBanded, 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,...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleWhen 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...
View ArticleIs 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...
View ArticleWatch 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,...
View ArticleCan 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...
View ArticlePound 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...
View ArticleSupermarkets: 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...
View ArticleHow 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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