Food

Is there really a list of foods you must eat every day? Here's the honest answer behind the superfood hype — and what actually matters on your plate.

This week's Friday table took us to Le Siam in Naperville for Tom Kha soup, crazy noodles, and Massaman curry — plus a home-style Tom Kha recipe to try

A stranger's cruel get down to the gym, fatty remark in a nightclub pushed 26-year-old mother Sarah Gould to lose six stone in time for her wedding.

A Tel Aviv University study found a protein-rich breakfast including dessert helped dieters lose more weight and keep it off over 32 weeks than a strict diet.

Are whole eggs or egg whites better for you? The science on dietary cholesterol has shifted, and the yolk carries nutrients the white lacks.

The Friday cooking column continues with Mrinalini Sen's Easy Breezy Bhindi, a Bengali Sorshe-Posto style okra preparation with mustard-poppy paste.

This Friday: slow-simmered black lentil dal with a buttery tadka, roasted cauliflower with a spiced yogurt marinade, and a fresh kachumber on the side.

A viral video by competitive eater Furious Pete showed how before-and-after fitness photos can be faked in five hours with chips, soda, oil, and a tanning bed.

Maitreyee Das launches her Friday food column — a Bengali fish lover's quest for an easy recipe inspired by a restaurant spinach-and-cod dish.

Lunch decides your afternoon. Six healthy lunch formulas — Indian and global — built on protein, fiber, and vegetables, each ready in 20 minutes or less.

From turmeric to methi to cumin — twelve everyday Indian foods with real research (or long tradition) behind their weight-management reputation.

Leicester's Dalwara Singh received a 12-month suspended sentence for secretly lacing his wife's food with steroids — until his teenage daughter caught him.

Psychology studies link a taste for sweet foods with agreeableness and helpfulness — embodied cognition ties the sensation of sweetness to sweet behavior.

Curcumin, turmeric's active compound, matched ibuprofen for knee osteoarthritis pain in some trials. What the research really says — plus the dose and

A landmark 2011 NEJM study found that low-income women who moved to less-poor neighborhoods via a housing-voucher lottery had lower rates of extreme obesity

Diwali is October 26th — here are three easy, no-fail sweets to make at home: Sandesh, Kesar Shrikhand, and Coconut Ladoo.

In September 2011, Jensen Farms cantaloupes contaminated with Listeria sickened 72 people and killed 13 — the deadliest US foodborne outbreak in a decade.

Some US cities moved to keep snack trucks away from schools during school hours to fight childhood obesity. Do vendor restrictions work — and are they fair?

Kim Robinshaw lost eight stone after 'virtual gastric band' hypnotherapy in 2011. A remarkable anecdote — but anecdotes are not evidence.

Toning shoes, green tea extract, diet pills — the weight-loss industry sells shortcuts the evidence doesn't support. What actually works is unsellable.