Do Gut Microbes Control Your Food Cravings?
Do you have cravings for particular foods? Your gut microbes can influence your food choices. You can also manipulate your gut microbes to curb cravings.
When Should You Try A Low Carb Diet?
There are people who thrive on a low-carb or ketogenic diet. Here are the precautions you should take if you want to try this nutrition approach yourself.
Does Eating Red Meat Increase the Risk of Diabetes?
A recent study suggests that consumption of red meat contributes to (or even causes) inflammation and impaired glucose metabolism. How valid is this notion?
Do Fat People Live Longer?
Reports claim that overweight people live longer than their normal weight counterparts. Is this true? Or is mass media jumping to an unfounded conclusion?
There Is No Single Cause of (Or Treatment For) Obesity
The debate about what causes obesity and the best way to lose weight rages on. But the answer to those questions isn't so simple.
10 Ways Stress Makes You Fat and Diabetic
A growing amount of research shows that stress causes both obesity and diabesity in a variety of ways.