You eat more candies if they are visible and/or close at hand. You may underestimate your consumption if you must lift a finger to get the food.

What are the benefits of turning off the boob tube? Does reading make smarter brains? Should preschool kids stare at the tube three hours a day?

One-quarter of cats and dogs are fat, says National Research Council. Does this matter?

Anthrax scares lead to overuse of antibiotics. Resistance is feared. Could we be returning to the bad old days of medicine?

New ideas on fighting fat. Can leptin help fight obesity?

Why is obesity unhealthy, and why is it getting so common? What are the keys to losing weight?

Is more fat the answer to too fat? That’s one way to describe the intriguing experiments on conjugated linoleic acid (CLA), a compound found in many animal fats.