Health

We all know that sugar can make you fat. But we eat it anyway because it’s really good. So what if we were to tell you sugar can also make you dumb? Would you put down your Big Gulp and step away from your Snickers?

It’s not uncommon for some teens to sign abstinence pledges or pledges vowing not to drink and drive. But at one high school school in Massachusetts, students are promising to abstain from something else entirely: tanning beds.

Unfortunately, a memo requiring you to work on Saturday may not be the only thing on your desk making you sick.

The ‘tanning mom’ of New Jersey has upset a lot of mothers, tanning salon owners and just about anyone with a central nervous system and a basic sense of moral decency or sanity.

Trying to shed some unwanted pounds? Skip the cereal and have eggs for breakfast instead — new research shows you may wind up eating less later on.

Can the season in which you’re born actually impact your overall mental state? A new study indicates it can.

According to a recently-released government survey, all those warnings about skin cancer don’t seem to be having much of an impact (just ask tanorexic mom Patricia Krentcil).

There is a new study on obesity being conducted by Washington University that is requiring all of its participants to gain 5% of their body weight in exchange for $3,500. And you won’t believe what participants will have to chow down on.

It’s no news that smoking is bad for us, and that the risks are compounded for expectant mothers. Research shows pregnant smokers have a higher risk of premature births, birth defects, low birth weight, miscarriages and stillbirths — so it’s especially shocking that a new study reveals more than a fifth of white women continue to light up while they’re eating for two.

In a study confirming what most of us have probably suspected all along, researchers have found that television encourages young people to eat more junk food and paves the way to obesity and other significant health issues.