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One day, your doctor may tell you to eat two teaspoons of quantum dots and call her in the morning. Well, sort of.

Weight gain may in part be caused by an odd eating schedule, and not just a junk food diet, a new study in mice suggests.

Researchers at Rutgers recently evaluated results from 68 previously published scientific reports considering the association between family mealtime and children’s health.

In mice, high-fat chow spurs birth of neurons that encourage weight gain...

Bite size depends on the familiarly and texture of food. Smaller bite sizes are taken for foods which need more chewing and smaller bite sizes are often linked to a sensation of feeling fuller sooner.

Mothers who eat fish while pregnant produce offspring with better cognitive development.

A new study, supported in part by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) of the National Institutes of Health, suggests that a combination of mobile technology and remote coaching holds promise in encouraging healthier eating and physical activity behavior in adults. The study focused on the best way to change multiple health behaviors.

Drinking water has always been the healthy alternative to carbonated sodas or juices full of sugar but it may be more than a better beverage alternative. Water may affect what foods you choose to eat.

It's called a "health halo effect." As long as we have the feeling we're doing something healthy, we extend it to everything during that meal.

In order for the nation to achieve goals set by the federal government for reducing obesity rates by 2020, children in the United States would need to eliminate an average of 64 excess calories per day, researchers calculated in a new study.

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Obese white teenage girls who lose weight may benefit physically, but the weight change does not guarantee they are going to feel better about themselves, according to a Purdue University study.

Biologists had long assumed that predators were more concerned with the quantity of their food than the quality, but a recent study shows that nutritional value dictates how predatory ground beetles choose their prey.