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Many athletes and gym-goers are turning to a popular but potentially dangerous new pill to help them build muscle and gain strength: a steroid alternative known as SARMs. The pills [...]

Anyone who has ever been on a diet knows that the standard prescription for weight loss is to reduce the amount of calories you consume. But a new study, published [...]

Byline: ANAHAD O'CONNOR Anyone who has ever been on a diet knows that the standard prescription for weight loss is to reduce the amount of calories you consume. But a [...]

Type 2 diabetes was once known as adult-onset diabetes. But now that term is outdated: Increasingly it is a disease that begins in childhood. Between 2000 and 2009, the rate [...]

To millions of Americans, Bob Harper was the picture of health, a celebrity fitness trainer who whipped people into shape each week on the hit TV show ''The Biggest Loser.'' [...]

Byline: THOMAS FULLER, ANAHAD O'CONNOR and MATT RICHTEL Correction Appended KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Over the past three decades this increasingly prosperous nation has become the fattest country in Asia, [...]

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Over the past three decades this increasingly prosperous nation has become the fattest country in Asia, with nearly half the adult population now overweight or obese. [...]

Amish people living in a rural part of Indiana have a rare genetic mutation that protects them from Type 2 diabetes and appears to significantly extend their life spans, according [...]

For years, Jody Christ, 62, struggled to control her high cholesterol. Her doctors encouraged her to exercise, change her diet and lose weight, but none of that ever seemed to [...]

Three years ago, Christina D'Ambrosio went to her first spin class, pedaling fast on a stationary bike to the rhythms of popular music as an instructor shouted motivation. But Ms. [...]

Byline: ANAHAD O'CONNOR Three years ago, Christina D'Ambrosio went to her first spin class, pedaling fast on a stationary bike to the rhythms of popular music as an instructor shouted [...]

Byline: ANAHAD O'CONNOR About a year and a half ago, Robin Collier and her husband, Wayne, were like millions of other Americans: overweight and living with Type 2 diabetes. Despite [...]

About a year and a half ago, Robin Collier and her husband, Wayne, were like millions of other Americans: overweight and living with Type 2 diabetes. Despite multiple diets, the [...]

If milk comes from a plant, can you still call it milk? Not according to the dairy industry. Facing growing competition from dairy alternatives like almond, soy and coconut milk, [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDWhat do households on food stamps buy at the grocery store? The answer was largely a mystery until now. The United States Department of Agriculture, which oversees the $74 [...]

For more than a year I have been writing about how the beverage industry has paid for health research to downplay the link between sugary soda and obesity. In the [...]

The sugar industry paid scientists in the 1960s to play down the link between sugar and heart disease and promote saturated fat as the culprit instead, newly released historical documents [...]

A prominent medical journal on Monday published a scathing attack on global health advice to eat less sugar. Warnings to cut sugar, the study argued, are based on weak evidence [...]

For more than a decade, Coca-Cola, Pepsi and other beverage companies have fought mightily against efforts to tax sugary sodas, defeating more than three dozen such proposals around the country. [...]

Byline: ANAHAD O'CONNOR and MARGOT SANGER-KATZ For more than a decade, Coca-Cola, Pepsi and other beverage companies have fought mightily against efforts to tax sugary sodas, defeating more than three [...]

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Can public health officials force Americans to break their soda habit? The answer may come soon from the University of California, San Francisco, a health sciences center that has more [...]

Byline: ANAHAD O'CONNOR Can public health officials force Americans to break their soda habit? The answer may come soon from the University of California, San Francisco, a health sciences center [...]

Byline: ANAHAD O'CONNOR Do studies show that soft drinks promote obesity and Type 2 diabetes? It depends on who paid for the study. Researchers from the University of California, San [...]

Byline: ANAHAD O'CONNOR The beverage giants Coca-Cola and PepsiCo have given millions of dollars to nearly 100 prominent health groups in recent years, while simultaneously spending millions to defeat public [...]

The beverage giants Coca-Cola and PepsiCo have given millions of dollars to nearly 100 prominent health groups in recent years, while simultaneously spending millions to defeat public health legislation that [...]

The sugar industry paid scientists in the 1960s to play down the link between sugar and heart disease and promote saturated fat as the culprit instead, newly released historical documents [...]

When Laura Ingalls, an avid runner from Boston, found out after a routine blood test that she was iron-deficient, she turned to the kitchen instead of the medicine cabinet: She [...]

Like most of my work, this article would not have been possible without coffee. I'm never fully awake until I have had my morning cup of espresso. It makes me [...]

An influential panel of experts convened by the World Health Organization concluded on Wednesday that regularly drinking coffee could protect against at least two types of cancer, a decision that [...]

Two years ago, Kristi Wood was tired and achy and could not think clearly, and she had no idea why. ''I was in a fog and feeling awful,'' said Ms. [...]

Question: Does skipping breakfast cause weight gain? When I was younger, my mother said that if I don't eat breakfast then I'll ''train'' my metabolism to slow down, thus leading [...]

Byline: ANAHAD O'CONNOR Mark Mattson, a neuroscientist at the National Institute on Aging in Maryland, has not had breakfast in 35 years. Most days he practices a form of fasting [...]

Mark Mattson, a neuroscientist at the National Institute on Aging in Maryland, has not had breakfast in 35 years. Most days he practices a form of fasting -- skipping lunch, [...]

Byline: ANAHAD O'CONNOR New federal dietary guidelines are urging Americans to drastically cut back on sugar, and for the first time have singled out teenage boys and men for eating [...]

New federal dietary guidelines announced on Thursday urge Americans to drastically cut back on sugar, and for the first time have singled out teenage boys and men for eating too [...]

Byline: ANAHAD O'CONNOR A group called the Global Energy Balance Network, led by scientists and created by Coca-Cola, announced this week that it was shutting down after months of pressure [...]

A group called the Global Energy Balance Network, led by scientists and created by Coca-Cola, announced this week that it was shutting down after months of pressure from public health [...]

Byline: ANAHAD O'CONNOR Coca-Cola's top scientist is stepping down following revelations that the beverage giant initiated a strategy of funding scientific research that played down the role of Coke products [...]

Coca-Cola's top scientist is stepping down after revelations that the beverage giant initiated a strategy of funding scientific research that played down the role of Coke products in the spread [...]

A yearlong federal investigation into the dietary supplement industry has resulted in a widespread crackdown on the sale of tainted or misleading products. The Justice Department said on Tuesday that [...]

The University of Colorado School of Medicine announced Friday that it was returning a $1 million gift from Coca-Cola after it was revealed that the money had been used to [...]

FOR the first 18 years of my life, I was raised as a vegetarian. My father was convinced of the perils of red meat after my paternal grandmother died on [...]

Byline: ANAHAD O'CONNOR An international panel of experts convened by the World Health Organization has concluded that eating processed meat like hot dogs, ham and bacon raises the risk of [...]

An international panel of experts convened by the World Health Organization concluded Monday that eating processed meat like hot dogs, ham and bacon raises the risk of colon cancer and [...]