Women: drink coffee, it is good for you!

And the effect was strongest in women: those who drank two to five cups of coffee a day were up to 26 per cent less likely to die than abstainers – mainly because of a lower risk of death from heart disease.

Ten ways for those last ten pounds

Using will power to control weight is like trying to hold your breath, he says. You can do it for a while, but then the brain takes over and demands you gulp.

Women: More concerned with weight than cancer

Women are more concerned about losing weight than they are about suffering from cancer, heart disease or diabetes, a survey showed.

Now You Have Reasons to Eat Organic

It can be scary when you think about what’s in our grocery stores: genetically modified foods, foods that contain synthetic hormones, pesticides and antibiotics, as well as foods exposed to irradiation (a form of radiation used to kill bacteria).

When is food not food, when it’s junk food

Food we eat today often bears no resemblance to the real edible stuff that our grandparents and great-grandparents ate.

The 100-Mile Diet Wins Book Prize

The memoir, cast in the popular form of a year-long experiment, documents the pair’s effort to eat nothing but locally grown food, for environmental reasons.

Does Mikey Like It? Then It’s Not As Nutritious.

Breakfast cereals for children are less healthy than cereals meant for adults, and those marketed the most aggressively to kids have the worst nutritional quality, according to a new analysis of 161 brands.