With nothing over $1.79, it's a great time for a vegan snack attack. Check out 7-Eleven's top five accidentally vegan snacks.
SAN FRANCISCO — It's not hard to figure out that stocking school vending machines with sugary sodas and salty, fatty snacks is a bad idea. Repla...
As First Lady Michelle Obama spoke to the NAACP convention in Kansas City about childhood obesity Monday, Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) continued his ...
Some are the chefs behind the best restaurants in the world and globally admired gastronomic innovators; some are household names for their culinary a...
Something transformative is happening in America. Federal recommendations limiting food marketing to kids. Building sidewalks so that kids can be ph...
Is the federal government preparing to impose strict new standards on the food industry and how it markets junk food to kids? On Wednesday, BNET po...
Chicago hip hop artist D-Nick The Microphone Misfit teamed up with B-Boy Super inLight to create "Abnormality," a track for the opening of Graffiti and Grub, a Chicago health food store founded by activist LaDonna Redmond.
As Kristin Davis' stand-in on Sex and the City, I was required to be the same height and have the same color hair as her. After a few months on the job, I had gained fifteen pounds.
In today's episode, Hazel discusses Ricky Martin, RNC expenditures, and a recent study connecting junk food to obesity. Topics mentioned: Ricky M...
Scientists have finally confirmed what the rest of us have suspected for years: Bacon, cheesecake, and other delicious yet fattening foods may be addi...
Who is making all these idiotic nutrition decisions on behalf of our children? And more importantly, what can we do about it?
You have to hand it to PepsiCo for this effort to make their snacks healthier for us. But remember -- junk food is called that for a reason. Less un-healthy junk food is still junk food.
Jennifer Schuessler The New York Review of Books The Ask, Sam Lipsyte, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 296 pp., $25.00 If you've heard anything about Sam...
Nothing appeases masses of overworked, perpetually underpaid educators quite like the wholesome, crumbly goodness of warm, moist government coffee cake.
Following the release of a new report, activists around the world are taking action to tell Nestle - the largest food and drink company in the world - to stop sourcing palm oil from rainforest destroyers.
If you ate those no-no foods and ignored your good intentions, now is not the time to beat up on yourself. Instead, use your "falling down" to shower yourself with warmth, sympathy and compassion.
I've been trying for several months to get the principal and "wellness committee" at my daughter's elementary school to eliminate junk food in the classroom. Hey Michelle, can you lend a hand?
Kids have gotten bigger recently. In fact, according to the CDC, obesity rates have tripled in the past 30 years with nearly 20 percent of children aged 6-11 and 18 percent for those aged 12-19.
A plan that bases health care premiums on nutrition and lifestyle choices could ignite the food revolution we need to rid ourselves of the burdens of preventable chronic diseases.
No bigger than a Whopper, this little picture-and-text -- plus some recipes -- package is so gross it has something to offend and delight almost anyone.
In our OB-GYN practice, the #1 complaint we hear from our patients is about weight gain. The climate in southern California, where we live and work, e...
Type 2 diabetes is such an American epidemic that we can skip giving kids bikes for Christmas and move right to the wheelchairs they'll be needing later in life. Forget the basketballs, baseball gloves and bats.
Whether it's Danimals, a sugary cereal, or glow in the dark Mac 'n Cheese -- think about the real reason you bought these items. Is it because your children really need them? Or because of the clever packaging.
Why is no one paying attention to foods disseminated at birthday parties or on special occasions in classrooms at public elementary schools?
With the rumors swirling that Michelle Obama is a big fan of former FDA Commissioner David Kessler's new book The End of Overeating, it seems reasonab...
