Carbohydrate is one of the macronutrients that we need, primarily for energy. You need to get between 50 and 60 percent of your daily calories from carbohydrates.

A “café-style” diet of fatty, sugary food results in compulsive overeating among rats and may be addictive in the same way as heroin or cocaine, according to a study.

The more obese a woman is, the more likely she is to have had a child with a heart defect. On average, obesity is associated with a 15 percent increased risk of having a baby with a heart defect.

Tins of Heinz baked beans, soup and beans, John West and Princes fish, and Napolina tomatoes are lined with a membrane containing bisphenol A, or BPA.

If you’ve ever tried to lose weight, you’ve probably wished you could speed up your metabolism and burn calories more easily. There’s only one way you can boost your metabolism legitimately…

It’s not only your stomach that desires a certain food, it’s also your head. Cravings have biological and psychological roots: Learning to control those urges can help your diet.

Does carrying a gene tied to obesity doom a teenager to becoming obese? Not if that teen stays physically active, a new study shows.

People who were asked to taste food described as “healthy” reported being hungrier afterward than people who ate the same food when it was described as “tasty.”

A combination of three nutrients might help improve memory in Alzheimer’s patients by stimulating the growth of new brain connections (synapses), a new study shows.

A daily nibble of dark chocolate may slash the risk of heart attacks and strokes by more than one-third, a German study found.