Coffee Can Extend Your Life - Really!: In a New England Journal of Medicine study of 400,000 aging Americans, the NIH once again proved that coffee drinking is good for your heart, and a bunch of other organs, too.

Halse Anderson's "Speak" Labeled Pornography: Go back to a future where book banning is a reality, as you read about a modern-day evangelist who is on a crusade to remove quality reading material from a local school system's curriculum.

The Biggest Medical Myth of All Time: The greatest medical myth of all time is that obesity, or any degree of excessive body fatness, is the direct result of excessive food intake and/or insufficient exercise. What hard evidence exists to controvert this belief?

The Calculus of Calorie Counting: A look at the "new math" behind the calorie equation, and why we can't fool our fat-o-stats with step-aerobics and Lean Cuisines.

The Real Bathroom Scales: 
A real-world study of how the body's energy expenditure variables respond to changes in intake...or, why your last diet didn't "take".

Through Thick and Thin: A research review of two major physiologic differences between "natural fatties" and "natural thinnies", and how those differences affect energy expenditure, causing the same number of input calories to result in variable amounts of fat deposition.

Want to be more like Katniss? Just read the book.: Can reading good fiction change our personalities? A new study seems to say it can.

When All Natural is Anything But - the Kashi Controversy: Research into Kashi's cereals finds that they are made with 100% GMO soy-not what most of us consider "all natural".

You Can Get There From Here: An examination of several so-called "appetite suppressant" drugs, with insight into how these products actually modify your body chemistry to cause significant, lasting weight loss.