Do you hate Brussels sprouts because your mother did" Does the size of your plate determine how hungry you feel" Why do you actually overeat at healthy restaurants". "You can ask your smartest friend why he or she just ate what they ate, and you wont get an answer any deeper than, 'It sounded good,'" says Brian Wansink, Ph.D.), author of "Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think," and Professor and Director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab........

Your leftover Halloween candy is almost gone from your cupboards, and the holiday season with all its sweet temptations has begun. However, all those holiday parties and office gatherings laden with scrumptious food and drink don't have to mean the end of your weight loss plan. It's still possible to enjoy the bounty and not feel deprived of your favorite holiday dishes, says Connie Diekman, director of University Nutrition at Washington University in St. Louis........

Hearty feasts and couch-potato marathons are holiday traditions, but UT Southwestern Medical Center experts warn that packing on pounds and not exercising could be deadly for the 6 million Americans who have diabetes and don't even know it. Diabetes, a metabolic disorder linked with obesity, can be a silent killer because its symptoms aren't sudden, but build up over time and lead to heart disease or other maladies........

While enjoying a Thanksgiving dinner with friends and family, most try to avoid thinking about the seemingly unending number of Calories they're consuming. It probably never crosses their minds, however, to think about why food is measured in Calories. James L. Hargrove, associate professor of foods and nutrition in the University of Georgia's College of Family and Consumer Sciences, said many nutritionists aren't even sure of the true origin of the Calorie (or why it's supposed to be capitalized)........

Over $100 million in federal grants were awarded toward using DNA sequencing to unlock the genomic secrets of human diseases, including cancer. The National Human Genome Research Institute announced that the Human Genome Sequencing Center at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston will receive $27.6 million in the next fiscal period. Two other large-scale sequencing centers – the Broad Institute Sequencing Platform at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University and the Washington University Genome Sequencing Center – were awarded $48 million and $41 million, respectively. The total award for the HGSC is expected to be approximately $114 million over four years. NHGRI and the National Cancer Institute, both part of the National Institutes of Health, also announced that all three sequencing centers will devote a significant part of their efforts to The Cancer Genome Atlas Pilot Project, which is testing the feasibility of a large-scale, …