Tag: Weight Management

According to a new study that took place at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina, cardiovascular exercise was...

Some experts calling on the federal government to start taxing unhealthy foods. Although debatable whether such a tax would actually...

To date, the research has found no undisclosed food, chant, or medicine responsible for the exceptionally long lives of centenarians....

Seemingly unrelated external events or circumstances can literally alter our brains for good or ill -- sometimes permanently, unless somehow...

A new study at the University of Colorado in Aurora has found that liposuction is not permanent. One year post-surgery, for...

A recent study that took place at Children's Hospital Boston found that formula-fed babies who are started on solid food...

A new study shows that for the past 30 years we have been eating more foods with added sugar and, correspondingly,...

Researchers at the University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles recently developed a new method of...

There are no magic bullets that will improve the health of the overweight or cause them to shed pounds without...

Scientists at Virginia Tech have found that there is a connection between drinking water prior to meals and losing weight. The subjects who...

It takes an extra 3,500 calories to gain a single pound of body fat. If you picked up an extra...

Studies show that 25% of overweight subjects rated their weight as normal. 70% of the obese and 40% of the...

Research shows that small reductions in an overweight child's body mass index (BMI) are likely to yield big improvements in...

How companies convince you and your children to crave fast food, beg for it, and buy it. And how it...

"We're number one! We're number one!" Never to be outdone, the English language, led by the United States, is leading...

I love marketing reframes. For years, one of my favorites was the pork industry's, "Pork, the other white meat" campaign,...

 A company called Zeltiq markets a high-tech device that sucks in the fat-bearing parts of the skin, then cools the...

Recent studies show that low-carb diets, heavy in animal fats, may increase the risk of death from cancer and heart...

As obesity rates climb in Western cultures, so do the rates of those going under the knife to fight the...

In the UK, weight loss operations are up 1000% in the last decade.

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) says we’re using less high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS). However, the problem is that...

According to the USDA’s most recent report, consumption of HFCS in the U.S. has declined by 11 percent.

Kids between four and six years of age actually think that food packaged with images of popular cartoon characters tastes...

New studies have found that junk foods exert an addictive pull as powerful as that conferred by the most highly...

A new study led by the Scripps Research Institute in Florida revealed just how extraordinarily addictive junk food actually is....