The notion of potentially healthy obesity is a myth, with most obese people slipping into poor health and chronic illness over time, a new British study claims. The "obesity paradox" is a theory that ...

Feeding peanuts to babies can reduce their risk of developing allergies, a study published this week affirmed. While nuts themselves remain choking hazards, giving foods made with nuts to babies may ...

The long-held notion that the cheese- and butter-lovin’ French enjoy relatively low rates of heart disease because they drink red wine is misguided, new research proclaims, as are the studies that ...