Adding to the evidence that your baby’s health may be influenced by the nine months it spends in the womb, a new study finds that a pregnant mother’s diet may be associated with her child’s later risk of obesity.
Diet
Beware the Office Candy Bowl
Every office has at least one: a giant bowl of bite-size candy bars, peppermints, chocolate Kisses and other high-sugar treats. It’s hard to resist its gravitational pull, especially when you’re suffering from a post-lunch …
Can Eating Strawberries Prevent Cancer?
When it comes to preventing cancer, can what you eat make a difference?
How Stress and Sleep Conspire to Make You Fat
The trouble with stress is that it seeps into every area of your life — affecting your sleep, mood and the size of your waistline. The interactions between these factors were the subject of a recent study in the International …
Weight Loss Tips: Plan Ahead for the Moments that Make You Fat
Exercising willpower is certainly an important technique for losing weight. But according to James Hill, executive director of the Anschutz Health and Wellness Center at the University of Colorado, you can’t rely on it as an …
Health-Washing: Is ‘Healthy’ Fast Food for Real?
Fast-food restaurants are loading their menus with nutritious-sounding options in a bid to draw more-health-conscious consumers. But how healthy are these options?
The hCG Diet Myth: Why Would a Pregnancy Hormone Make You Skinny?
Quick quiz: does pregnancy cause weight loss or gain? It seems like a dumb question but it’s a test that the promoters of the “hCG diet” seem to have failed.
If You Thought Oatmeal Couldn’t Be Bad For You, Guess Again
The first clue you might be eating something unhealthy is that you’re eating it at McDonald’s. That applies even to some of Mickey D’s most nutritious-sounding menu items, such as the recently debuted breakfast offering: Fruit & …
The Government’s Dietary Guidelines Get Guff From All Sides
The government updates its Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) every five years, and typically their unveiling is a bit of a snoozer. But the latest batch of Uncle Sam’s how-to-eat instructions, made public on Jan. 31, have yielded some interesting backlash.
Study: Want to Live Longer? Switch to Whole Grains
Eating a fiber-heavy diet helped reduce people’s risk of death from heart disease, infectious or respiratory disease, or any cause by 22%, according to a new study.
Eating Fatty Foods May Up Your Risk of Depression
That old standby about tucking into a pint of ice cream to get over a breakup? Counterproductive, according to a large new study that finds a link between eating trans fats and an increased risk of depression.
Turn Down the Thermostat, Drop a Few Pounds?
Central heating feels good on blustery winter nights, but a new study by researchers at University College London suggests that keeping your house too balmy may be making you fat.
Big Breakfasts Are Out. 5 Better-For-You Morning Meals
Conventional nutritional wisdom has suggested that having a big breakfast jump starts your metabolism and helps you eat less the rest of the day — and stay slim. But a study published Monday in Nutrition Journal turned that …
