Obesity

Can your biome make you fat?

Is there a correlation between your biome and your BMI? In her new book, Why Diets Make Us Fat, neuroscientist Sandra Aamodt sheds light on this tangled, cryptic relationship. T...

Want to eat well? Forget about willpower

Editor’s Note: Some of the research by Brian Wansink highlighted in this article comes from published papers that have since been retracted, corrected or flagged, after an inves...

How microbes define, shape — and might even heal us

As both a scientist and a human being, I am continually awestruck by discoveries about the power of the microbiome to define and shape us. But what excites me most is the very r...