Candy, soda, french fries and even chocolate milk will now be banned from sale at Massachusetts public schools, as the Public Health Council begins im...
Federal guidelines that would help support healthy foods for kids are under attack.
WASHINGTON -- House Republicans are siding with food companies resisting the Obama administration's efforts to pressure them to stop advertising junk ...
Yet another major long-term study, this one published in the New England Journal of Medicine, has conclusively demonstrated the link between weight ga...
You're still likely to find many doctors who don't live other elements of the healthy lifestyle that they urge their patients to adopt.
According to the C.D.C., "childhood obesity has more than tripled in the past 30 years." As a New York Times Op-Ed piece stated in 2008: "Tens of mill...
Ferran Adrià secretly enjoys an occasional Bollycao, a chocolate-filled Spanish cousin of the Twinkie. Julia Child once admitted that she sometimes...
Like the anti-tobacco campaign, this is going to be a long, hard fight to get healthy food in schools. But not impossible, and young people can be important front-line advocates and leaders.
CicLAvia is certainly about giving Angelenos a break from the stress of car traffic. But it is also a new way of thinking about how we engage with our city, and how we exercise in LA.
Last year, we told you that carrots companies were using junk-food marketing techniques to gain a foothold in the snack market. Now Fast Company has t...
My first thought was, "Um, gross," but after a few days the idea grew on me.
As humans, we are the beneficiaries of many gifts. Nature has provided us with three sacred blessings to sustain human life: food, water and air. But ...
GENEVA — The U.N. health agency says world leaders will discuss efforts to clamp down on junk food marketing to children when they meet in New Y...
The recently passed Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act (PDF) offers some positive steps to improve how our children eat in schools. But in trying to make s...
It's easy to be swayed by claims like "Fat-free," "A full serving of vegetables in every ounce," or the mere suggestion of fruit on a label. But many...
I cornered NYU Professor of Nutrition Marion Nestle to ask why the issues of junk food and obesity have become so incredibly politicized.
It's 3PM, and you're dying of hunger. You run down to the snack bar near your office and see a whole aisle of low-calorie snacks. Guilt-free satisfaction, right? If only it were that simple.
When news of nutrition professor Mark Haub's amazing junk food only 27 pound weight loss over two months hit the airwaves, I know I scratched my head....
Mark Haub, a professor of human nutrition at Kansas State University, did an unusual experiment. He ate snack cakes and other sugary, processed foods...
For 10 weeks, Mark Haub, a professor of human nutrition at Kansas State University, ate one of these sugary cakelets every three hours, instead of mea...
We all bear the consequences if these children don't eat.
The extreme stimulation of today's enticements can hijack our brains. We may not be safe from addiction when it comes to unrestricted access to super stimulating natural reinforcers.
French comic fans are crying foul after a McDonald's ad featuring iconic characters from a phenomenally successful series hit the streets this week. ...
I ask you to consider: Have you ever made poor food choices because of cost? What is the REAL cost of this cheap food--the cost in dollars, on our health, on our environment?
No matter what is done to a food, the more processing steps taken, the more detrimental to the nutritional integrity of that food.
