According to the American Heart Association, Americans now consume on average 22 teaspoons of sugar per day, or 355 calories.
New York wants to know if you're "pouring on the pounds." On Monday, the Health Department rolled out their new ad campaign targeting liquid calori...
Nearly 17% of all children are obese. This is much more than an individual or family problem. It's a pressing national crisis.
Wouldn't it be great if we looked at each others' spare-tires as signs of abundance and joy and, along the same vein, recognize that our friends who appear too thin may actually need extra moral support?
German researchers announced today that they found a significant link between people who are heavily in debt and people who are heavily overweight.
Health care fills the news every day, obscuring a simple fact: Your health depends far more on the internal healing system than the health care system.
A woman should have a little pooch. It's part of what makes us womanly.
The new narrative media of video games is making us psychologically damaged goods, whose best hope is that when we die alone, the neighbors will find our body before the dogs.
Obesity is as deadly as cancer and a whole lot more common.
Finding out whether or not you are suffering from hidden inflammation is critical, because almost every modern disease is caused or affected by it. If your immune system and its ability to quell inflammation in your body are impaired, watch out. You are headed toward illness and premature aging.
Those of us who can afford to change need to help those who can't. There is really only one thing that matters; one thing that can truly change the world... Grow, buy, eat, and serve organic food.
If you're always looking for ways to not be seen, how do you speak out? How do you move through the world if you have an invisible cloak that has no magical powers other than to keep you in your own shadow?
People want unhealthy foods almost as much as they want health care. America is getting fatter, largely because we don't realize that killing animals and squeezing the cheese out of them, perhaps especially the cheese, is slowly killing us too.
A new study finds obese people have 8 percent less brain tissue than normal-weight individuals. Their brains look 16 years older than the brains of le...
Could mindful eating be the answer to reducing, even by a fraction, the health care costs?
There's a generation of teens and tweens who will enter their adult lives more physically ill-equipped than any generation before them, ever.
A growing stack of laboratory research suggests that some of the chemicals used in everyday items predispose an individual to the battle of the bulge, despite normal diet and exercise.
If Congress is going to tackle health care, it needs to understand why so many children and adults are in such poor shape. First off, every child in every school deserves a healthful lunch every day.
We are stardust We are golden We are billion year-old carbon And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden Woodstock, Joni Mitchell What sounded...
In Elgin, civic leaders face a weighty problem: a survey that calls their town the fattest in Illinois....
Two years ago, the Cleveland Clinic stopped hiring smokers. It was one part of a "wellness initiative" that has won the renowned hospital -- which Pre...
Even though it's the slow news month of August, we had plenty going on at HuffPost Green -- It's beer month, for Godsakes. Check out my favorite stories of the week and pick your fave.
One out of every nine people now receives food stamps in the U.S. And two-thirds of Americans are either overweight or obese. A new scientific study l...
You do have to buy fresh fruits and vegetables. You can't rely on processed foods to be healthy. You have to cook, a little and learn the calories in the food you eat.
For this week's episode of CBS Doc Dot Com, I went to Camp Shane, listed on their Web site as "the original, longest running weight loss camp in the world" at 41 years and counting.
