Like Big Tobacco, Coca-Cola primarily sells one product--in its case, sugar water--that is linked to a number of diseases. It's under fire for its environmental, human rights, and health record.

Only in the movies would you end up with Meg Ryan if you truly are Sleepless in Seattle. Never mind that you are Tom Hanks. In real life, Tom never gets to make out with Meg because he is sleep deprived.

While I applaud Michelle Obama's initial efforts to take on the childhood obesity epidemic, America needs a comprehensive, well-funded national strategy to combat the problem.

In the eating disorders world, putting any child on a diet is not only unacceptable but appalling.

The relationship between many of us and our physicians is dysfunctional. Doctors are overwhelmed and receive less respect than ever before in the history of modern medicine.

As he sits in his CA office of his startup NeuroVigil, Low holds his miniature iBrain device. The size of two pennies, the miniature iBrain marks what scientists see as a revolution in the study of sleep

Is breastfeeding better than formula feeding? Every mother contemplates this question. Many instinctively "feel" that breastfeeding will lead to bette...

I was sitting in a booth at the local Chinese restaurant and doing what I do all the time: baby watching. I am a frustrated grandfather wanna-be. I lo...

Our busy lives have transformed us into a nation of MORE, where one of something is a good start, and more is never enough.

It's probably no surprise to frayed and exhausted new moms that repeated waking from deep sleep and hours of the taped yelps of crying babies are used to train Navy Seals to endure torture.

Consider insomnia as a symptom of a deeper problem. The answer is not sleep medication, or psychotropic medication, as the medications themselves are toxic to the organs, have side-effects, are often addictive.

Did you know that french fries are a vegetable? According to US school lunch guidelines, they are. That's just one grim fact I came across while researching what kids eat in school these days.

CHICAGO — An influential advisory panel says school-aged youngsters and teens should be screened for obesity and sent to intensive behavior trea...

The alarming obesity rate in the U.S. can be distilled to one basic truth: Americans consume more calories than they burn. It's a fact. And, I hate to be so blunt, but America wasn't born fat.

The best selling diet books out right now want to make you think there is another way. Why? Because you want another way and those books sell.

Psychiatrists must decide whether "binge eating disorder" stands alongside anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa as a separate psychiatric condition --...

The average woman in the U.S. is 5'4" and around 142 lbs. She is not modeling anything.