As the demand for larger portion sizes has been answered, the average American waistline has expanded accordingly.  New research from Duke University calls on the food and beverage industry to adjust serving sizes for calorie-laden soft drinks in an effort…

Ear infections are a common but very painful aspect of childhood, experienced by more than 5 million children each year.  New scientific evidence from Florida suggests that chronic ear infections during childhood increase the chance of becoming obese later in…

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is common among people who are obese and many of these people turn to bariatric surgery to achieve a healthier weight.  Many bariatric surgery patients say their OSA goes away or becomes more bearable after bariatric…

Not everyone who carries excess weight is at increased risk of developing cardiovascular disease.  In fact, it’s possible to be clinically obese and have a heart as healthy as a person of normal weight.  And many people of normal weight…

Study participants who ate two eggs for breakfast every day for two months lost 65% more weight than participants in the same study who ate a bagel for breakfast, even though the bagel and the eggs contained an equal number…

It could be a matter of dilution of the message as the scientific data was reinterpreted and broadcast by journalists everywhere recently when the prestigious Salk Institute for Biological Studies published, in the journal, Cell, a paper describing a drug…

According to recently released information, the soaring rate of obesity in 6- to 11-year-old American children has tripled in just 30 years.  Alongside that dangerous rise in weight that threatens our nation’s children, a growing number of these children also…

Most of us would have a hard time trying to discern the links between world-class athletes, veterans suffering from physical disabilities,  couch potatoes, and the frail, the elderly, and the obese but researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies…

Health Grades, Inc., has just released its third annual report on bariatric surgeries performed at surgical facilities across the nation.  It seems top-rated hospitals perform more of this increasingly popular surgery and they do so with 65% fewer complications than…

With 65% or more of the adults in the United States tipping the scales at the overweight (or beyond) point, losing excess weight and keeping it off is a mission most of us wish we could accomplish.  It’s common knowledge…

A general assumption is that fructose means fruit and most of us don’t worry about getting too much sugar from our fruits because we just don’t eat them very often.    We may be getting an overload of fructose without even…

In April, the CS Mott Children’s Hospital, a part of the University of Michigan, conducted a poll of adults to determine the issues that most concern them about the health and well-being of the nation’s children. Of the 20 issues…

When our ancestors hailed the United States as the “Land of Plenty,” it’s hardly likely they meant plenty of pounds. With the obesity epidemic spreading from sea to shining sea, however, the one thing Americans do seem to have plenty…

The American Heart Association (AHA) has released a commentary to the much-publicized comparison of three popular diets published by a team of Israeli researchers in a recent issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.  In the Israeli study, one…