It’s 9 p.m. on a Friday night, and you’re in your usual position: hunched over your Cheeto-dust covered laptop, refreshing FiveThirtyEight’s midterm election predictions for the second time in three minutes. Lite? Classic? Deluxe? Lite? Classic? Deluxe? LIGHT CLASSIC DELUXE LIGHTC…

Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski seems like a pretty impressionable guy, the kind of dude you could convince to lick a battery just by saying “Gronk, lick this battery.”

The Guardian reports today that Weight Watchers is exploring a bit of a revamp. The longtime diet organization has dropped “Weight” from its name—in a “Kentucky Fried Chicken is now KFC”-type swoop—in favor of the sleeker “WW” (its Wikipedia page has already been updated). WW is boosting the social media segment of…

There’s a fascinating article making the round in Huffington Post today, titled “Everything you know about obesity is wrong” by Michael Hobbes. It’s a long read, but a fascinating one, making the case that overweight people aren’t necessarily any more unhealthy than people who weigh less. Yes, we’ve heard that before.…

This is one of those news stories apparently designed to make me feel like a grade-A sucker: Science Daily reports today that a new study by Ben-Gurion University Of The Negev debunks the popular diet trick “based on the Delbouef illusion” that encourages people to eat their food off smaller plates because it will…

Anyone who’s tried to lose weight is probably familiar with the tyranny of the scale. It can feel like a guessing game, trying to discern why after a day of working out and eating healthy, the scale says you’ve gained two pounds, while after a day of Netflix and popcorn, you’ve lost a pound. A new product called Shapa…

If you often find yourself working on your night cheese, you’re not the only one. Researchers using sophisticated modeling programs to analyze global internet searches concluded that worldwide, people’s food searches peak at 7 p.m. and 2 a.m.

We thought the Museum Of Ice Cream was suspect, as it was based on a notoriously non-permanent substance. But this new pop-up museum is even worse: A press release announces that “Rubi Rymenmy, creator and founder of Art Flying Aerial, is presenting Cheat Day Land to Los Angeles, CA. Cheat Day Land is a space where…

Surely, after this experiment, there is no more science left to science. Everything has been scienced. Discover Magazine brings us news that researchers designed an experiment related to snacking in which men and women were outfitted with fat suits to determine whether “feeling fat” changed their eating habits. Turns…

Look hard enough at any diet plan, and its true motive becomes clear. Is it trying to sell you manuals and seminars on how to adhere to the lifestyle? Or maybe it’s hawking snack bars and pre-packaged dinners that fall into their narrow definition of a square meal? Or, in the case of Whole30 (whose popularity has…

Humans aren’t built to drink salt water. Ask any sailor shipwrecked on a desert island—except you can’t, because they’re dead, because humans shouldn’t drink salt water. But this obvious biological fact has escaped some health bloggers, who have recently been advocating for the “detox benefits” of a fad called…

I don’t spend a lot of time in CrossFit gyms, so I missed the memo that eating massive slabs of meat is the new cool diet trend among people I avoid like the plague. I’d heard of Paleo, of course, and ketogenic diets, which involve focusing on protein and fat, respectively. But the “carnivore diet”—whose adherents…

From the day the first calorie was ever counted, people have searched for the one easy get-thin-quick factor to spur weight loss (that does’t involve eating less or exercising more). Not that today’s mouse study proves positively a quick gateway to thinness, but it could be a step in the right direction.

On Monday, the Food and Drug Administration will require any food outlet with more than 20 locations—meaning restaurants, movie theaters, grocery stores, fast food joints, amusement parks, your Creameries Coldstone, your Aunties Anne, your Oranges Julii—will have to list the calorie counts for each of their menu…

Ketel One has taken a bold step forward into the calorie count-friendly landscape with a new line of diet vodka. A 1.5 oz. shot of Ketel One Botanicals clocks in at 73 calories, which is 25 percent less than the brand’s standard line. That figure is also roughly 40 percent less than a glass of white wine, and about 56…

Anyone who’s struggling with infertility can tell you it’s one of the most difficult things you might ever experience, and as the average age of parents rises, sometimes the infertility troubles do also. Women undergoing infertility treatment have been shown to have the same amount of depression as those going through…

I’m a lifelong F. Scott Fitzgerald fan (well, at least since college), easily as fascinated with the Great Gatsby era as the guy in Midnight In Paris is. But I never really thought about how much the fashion of the 1920s changed cultural ideals for the female body—and not for the better. This fascinating read on Gastro Obscura points out

“Eat your fruits and vegetables” is one of the first nutritional lessons we learn, probably around age 2. And while it’s good advice for the rest of our lives as well, even nutritionists have generally underestimated the power of a mostly-vegetable diet. The Telegraph reports a recent presentation from Harvard…

As scientific understanding of nutrition and health evolves, researchers are increasingly focusing on the role our genes play in how our bodies react to food and exercise. Diet and nutrition companies are debuting DNA-based diet kits that offer customized nutrition advice based on your profile. Now, one of the biggest…

Many of us kick off the new year aiming to conquer a number of resolutions. But Florida man Tyler Marinelli actually stuck to his. In a now-viral Reddit post, says he has lost more than 20 pounds since the beginning of the new year by eating mostly Chipotle. Unsurprisingly, he also worked out frequently, to help…