overeating
Your Cluttered Kitchen Might Be Making You Fat
A recent study has found what appears to be a direct link between caloric intake and how cluttered a kitchen is.
Why Your New Year Diet Is Doomed to Fail
It’s not your fault you only made it to day two of the Sirtfood diet. According to a new study from the University of Bristol, humans have developed an almost unavoidable urge to overeat, especially during winter.
How 'Health Food' Marketing Contributes to Obesity
According to a recent study, consumers implicitly believe that healthy food is less filling than unhealthy food and that can lead directly to overeating.
A Rare Eating Disorder Causes Binge Eating and Food Theft
Prader-Willi Syndrome is a rare genetic condition characterized by a perpetual feeling of hunger that can lead to theft and binge eating to the point of bursting the lining of the stomach.
Eating Lots of Red Meat Will Actually Increase Your Appetite
You don’t have to be a gaucho who sleeps atop a pile of bleached cow skulls—Smaug style—to know that red meat has been through the wringer as of late, Paleo horde or not. So it comes with a heavy heart that we announce yet another strike against the...
A Bad Relationship Can Make You Gorge Yourself
I can already imagine the David Lynch adaptation of this study, where a suburban couple drowns their sorrows in coffee and a lap pool filled to the brim with rum-raisin ice cream and crushed Valium.
Scottish People Are Getting Too Fat to Be Cremated
According to the National Association of Funeral Directors, their coffins are getting to be too big for the furnace doors.
Chinese Grandparents Are Making Their Grandchildren Fat
China's youth now has a growing obesity epidemic. The primary culprit? Their sweet old grans, according to a new study.
Too Many Frozen Pizza Options Are Making You Fat
Could endless access to frozen pizza of every stripe be contributing to obesity? Yes, of course—but not just because pizza isn't health food. The cornucopia of processed foods available to most of us could be seriously damaging our understanding of how...
Here's What Happens When You Eat Too Much on Thanksgiving
Scientists show us what's happening as we approach the brink of food coma. It's not pretty.
Eating with Fat Friends Is Making You Fat
Researchers at Cornell University have conducted a study that suggests physically fit people change their eating habits when dining with overweight friends. But I've got news for this scientific study: "never trust a skinny chef."
If You’re Eating Fresh Puppy Hearts, You Definitely Have an Eating Disorder
Tarrare, a young Frenchman from the 1700s, completely redefined our concept of overeating with his freaky metabolic disorder that prevented him from being satiated. To abate this raging appetite, the guy ate everything in sight, from inanimate objects...