To strengthen your mind, you may first want to exert your leg muscles, according to a sophisticated new experiment involving people, mice and monkeys. The study’s results [...]
It’s common knowledge that fruits and vegetables are important to our physical health (current USDA guidelines recommend 2 1/2 cups of veggies per day, plus 2 cups of [...]
As if knowing how many calories and grams of carbs you need per day wasn’t confusing enough, the buzziest new weight-loss strategy, called nutrient timing, is all about [...]
A little bit of what’s irresistible is good for you, Italian scientists have discovered. Their analysis of more than 23,000 people found that eating some pasta is [...]
Dieting often requires round-the-clock surveillance of our natural cravings. We can’t stop wanting ice cream, pizza or burgers, but to be healthy, we have to limit [...]
More than 100 Nobel laureates have a message for Greenpeace: Quit the G.M.O.-bashing. Genetically modified organisms and foods are a safe way to meet the demands of a [...]
Can a computer game train your brain to resist sweets? That’s the question Drexel University researchers hope to answer with one of two new studies launching this [...]
Do you ever postpone dinner because you’re in the middle of a project? Or skip breakfast because you overslept? As long as you avoid binging later on, it’s no big [...]
After I wrote last year that diet, not exercise, was the key to weight loss, I was troubled by how some readers took this to mean that exercise therefore had no value. [...]
“If everyone was a healthy weight we could close half the hospitals and get rid of half the doctors,” according to Philip Caravella, M.D., F.A.A.F.P. The family physician [...]