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McDonald’s has agreed to pay $8.5 million to settle a lawsuit over artery-clogging trans fats in its cooking oils, the company said on Friday.

McDonald’s said it will…

A bill approved by a Senate committee in Frankfort would protect restaurants from being sued by customers who blame them for being overweight.

The bill cleared the Senate Licensing and Occupations…

A diet rich in fiber and vegetables lowered cholesterol just as much as taking a statin drug, Canadian researchers reported on Monday.

They said people who cannot…

Sweet drinks - whether Kool-Aid with sugar or all-natural apple juice - seem to raise the risk of pudgy preschoolers getting fatter, new research suggests. That may come as a surprise…

If you want to keep trim, forget the diet books and gym membership - you may be better off just brushing your teeth more often, according…

It’s no secret that obesity is a serious problem in the United States, but you may not know that obesity isn’t as evenly distributed as you might think.

In Maryland,…

The results of a large urban multiethnic study show that high fat and high sodium diets are both risk factors for stroke, investigators with the Northern Manhattan Study…

New research findings pinpoint the specific component of rice bran responsible for its heart-healthy effects. Two small studies show that it is the oil, and not the fiber,…

Now that the holiday cookies are history, you’ve resolved to get fit and trim. Perhaps you’ve even considered taking over-the-counter dietary supplements to help you reach your weight-loss goals.

Drugstores, nutrition shops…

Life expectancy in the United States is set to drop within the next 50 years due to obesity, one of the world’s top experts on the subject said on Wednesday.

Obesity - especially abdominal obesity - is associated with a poor outlook for patients with established cardiovascular disease, results of a recent study indicate.

Increasing a mother’s intake of folic acid by adding the vitamin to food supplies has been shown to cut the risk of having a baby with neural tube defects, a…

Shunning food every other day may be a feasible way to slash calories - if you and those around you don’t mind the crankiness that comes with it,…

A gene that encodes a protein called lipin seems to promote obesity in mice, even when food intake remains stable, according to researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles.

“Our findings…

For a while in the mid-1990s, overweight Americans seemed to be going crazy over fen-phen.

Fen-phen, actually a combination of the drugs fenfluramine and phentermine, exploded…

I was recently talking to a reader of this site, and he was commenting on some of the pictures (body shots) that he’d…

There is a reality about weight loss that people need to be aware of. Losing weight requires you to feel hungry from time to time. There is…

The children of overweight mothers are 15 times more likely to be obese by age 6 than children of lean mothers, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.

The children start…

Men and women who tip the scale at more than 220 pounds are significantly more likely to develop kidney stones than people who weigh less than 150 pounds, according to…

Europe’s food and drink industry will soon sit down with consumers, health workers and EU regulators to agree ways to tackle a rising trend of obesity, particularly in children,…

Six months after spraining an ankle, overweight and obese children are more likely than their peers to still have pain, swelling or weakness, new study findings indicate.

“In our…