Overweight children are more responsive to food advertising and branding than kids in a normal weight range, according to a new study published in the journal Appetite.

The study looks at the quantity of food that children aged four to six choose to…

Are you a big fan of Ruby Gettinger, star of the Style Network’s sleeper hit, “Ruby?”  Shake her hand and hug her at 10 a.m. Saturday at Kiener Plaza, Broadway and Market Street. St. Louis is the last stop on…

I just spent five days on a fellowship in Seattle. I noticed something that a lot of Midwesterners who attended the conference with me noticed: Everyone was skinny. The only other place I’d seen this sort of consistently skinny people…

If you’re getting hungry right now, it’s no wonder. Apparently the mere suggestion of getting fit can boost your appetite. Dolores Albarracín, psychology professor at the University of Illinois, says in the most recent issue of “Obesity” that weight-loss campaigns that promote…

Each year, about 80 million Americans fork over more than $30 billion on programs and products that promise to help them lose weight. In the end, many of those people are as plump or plumper as they were when they…

Exercise is good — there’s no question about that.

But earlier this summer researchers at  University of Michigan found that  it doesn’t suppress appetite in obese women like it does in lean women. Apparently obesity interferes with a hormone called leptin that …

Science Daily is reporting that “some obese individuals don’t appear to have an increased risk for heart disease, while some normal-weight individuals do.” They’re basing this on two recent reports in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

Considering what we wrote about with Victoria’s Secret skinny, skinny models, maybe it’s time for fashion designers to smell the coffee:

The U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality reports this week that, if Americans continue to plump as they’re doing…