Science is starting to show that our brains are less able to detect calories in liquids. So, people in the know, including food industry executives, ….

I'm thinking waiters and waitresses are going to be bracing for more customers coming in going, not just kind of where is that beef from, but, like, ….

I think the food giants are realizing that one of the big myths of them is that they can innovate..

What I found, over four years of research and reporting, was a conscious effort — taking place in labs and marketing meetings and grocery-store aisle….

Every year, the average American eats as much as 33 pounds of cheese. That's up to 60,000 calories and 3,100 grams of saturated fat. So why do we eat….

The fast-food industry has moved into the grocery store, so you no longer have to go to a fast-food chain to find problematic foods..

They may have salt, sugar, and fat on their side, but we, ultimately, have the power to make choices. After all, we decide what to buy. We decide how….

In a key--but commonly overlooked--aspect of obesity, weight gain can be caused by the slightest increases in consumption, if it continues day in and….

Each year, food companies use an amount of salt that is every bit as staggering as it sounds: 5 billion pounds..

Some of the largest companies are now using brain scans to study how we react neurologically to certain foods, especially to sugar. They've discovere….

Take a cup of coffee, keep adding sugar until you reach the point that you like it the most, and then when you add more sugar, you actually like it l….

Health messages are simply overwhelmed, in volume and in effectiveness, by junk-food ads that often deploy celebrities or cartoon characters to great….

As I spoke with scientists about the way fat behaves, I couldn't resist drawing an analogy to the realm of narcotics. If sugar is the methamphetamine….

As a culture, we've become upset by the tobacco companies advertising to children, but we sit idly by while the food companies do the very same thing….