Saying nuts to Nutricate? The apparent success and consumer popularity of municipal laws in New York City, Seattle, Philadelphia and elsewhere that require chain restaurants to post nutritional information on their menus means that (1) more American cities’ elected officials will propose simil...

Most young kids’ play is sedentary A study looking a three-, four- and five-year-olds enrolled in community-based preschool programs found that 89 percent of the kids’ physical activity could be described as sedentary activity, while 56 percent of activities were sedentary during outdoor playtim...

Men seem to switch off thoughts of food When volunteers didn’t eat for a day and then were asked to suppress thoughts of food, men reported fewer cravings and less feeling of hunger than women did, according to a report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. When given brain scans...

Surgery helps or resolves fatty liver Obese people with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease who get weight-loss surgery can see a reduction or complete elimination of that health problem as they lose weight, researchers from the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston report. They looked at 15...

Cash incentives work, for awhile Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania found that giving people financial incentives to lose weight helped them lose more weight than people who didn’t get cash, at least in the short term. Fifty-seven participants were put into a program with either no ince...