Our buddy Kevin pointed me to a recent piece in The New York Times about vegan bodybuilders . According to the article, the website veganb...

Ultramarathoner Michael Arnstein calls himself "the Fruitarian." He eats nothing but fruit. I would elaborate, but I think these ...

I still vividly remember these nutrition PSAs that aired on Saturday mornings about 30 years ago. (Yes, I'm an old fart.) But looking b...

A few weeks ago, in my company’s café, I ran into a co-worker I hadn’t seen in quite a while. We were both juggling lunch plates in our hand...

In the immediate wake of Star Wars Day and Cinco de Mayo, it may have escaped your notice that today was National Nurses Day . But don’t fr...

Check out this time-lapse video of the Centers for Disease Control's maps showing rising obesity rates in the U.S.: And yet we'r...

The New York Times Magazine just published a lengthy write-up by Gary Taubes about the long-term toxicity of eating sugar and high fructose...

University of Minnesota researchers have found that parents of young kids " tend to neglect their own health and are therefore general...

I just finished reading the Wall Street Journal's recent  article about The Ranch at Live Oak in Malibu . The author of the piece, Chris...

More evidence that the low-fat hypothesis is crap . (Click the image for the full graphic) In 1977, Senator George McGovern's Se...

According to some, wearing blue-tinted sunglasses suppresses your appetite because all your food looks gross. The problem, of course, is...

This looks smart: Every morning, Kay Brown engages in a ritual similar to a heroin addict’s, or a diabetic’s: she sticks herself with a sy...

Last night, ABC aired its long-postponed Nightline segment about "The Caveman Diet" -- and unlike some media outlets -- didn...

Author and obesity researcher Zoe Harcombe : Fruits and vegetables are pretty much nutritionally useless . (And the fructose in fruit is wor...

I know -- you tried, but couldn't get through all the dense science-y stuff crammed into Gary Taubes (excellent) " Good Calories, B...

Is the news media finally wrapping its head around the fact that it's the intake of sugar and carbs -- not dietary fat -- that's ma...

Last week, Weight Watchers drastically overhauled its points system for the first time in 13 years , and as the New York Times reports, som...

The New Yorker's food issue is out this week, and it features a lengthy piece about April Broomfield , the chef/owner of NYC's The ...

I first came across this in Gary Taubes' "Good Calories, Bad Calories," but the New York Times Magazine has a pretty awesome ...

Go Paleo already. (Source: Paleo Approved )