Rachel Frederickson, winner of this season of NBC's The Biggest Loser, spent yesterday answering questions about her life post-reality TV. Many of those questions were about audience reaction to the finale, and concerns that she'd lost "too much weight" for the show. » 2/06/14 10:00am 2/06/14 10:00am

William Howard Taft was, notoriously, our fattest president, weighing in somewhere between 314 and 340 pounds during his term. One time he got stuck in a bathtub or something (maybe). This is literally the only thing anyone remembers about President Taft, even though—little known factoid—he was actually doing all kinds … » 10/15/13 3:20pm 10/15/13 3:20pm

If Hillary Clinton were to run for President in 2016, she'd have a lot of ducks to get in a row — fundraising, amassing an army of volunteers, getting key endorsements, building a killer staff to fuel her unstoppably Hillary Machine. Dozens of extra-shiny flag lapel pins, I'd imagine. Here's something that would… » 8/08/13 10:50am 8/08/13 10:50am

Cory Booker must be one of those dudes who holds his weight in a bag stored in an invisible realm, because he allegedly claims he's lost 40 pounds — and has "another 30 to go". » 3/08/13 10:00am 3/08/13 10:00am

Are you familiar with guyets? Not to be confused with it feminine cousin, the diet, a guyet is, you know, for dudes. Because when men diet, it's different. » 2/04/13 2:00pm 2/04/13 2:00pm

If you'd asked me a week ago what the future of dieting would look like, I would've told you I think it could go one of two ways. Either we become a society that grows to accept people of different sizes or we're gonna start literally torturing fat people into becoming skinny. You know, for their own good. » 1/07/13 10:45am 1/07/13 10:45am

David Zinczenko the chief yahoo Editor in Chief at Men's Health has written new weight loss manifesto The 8-Hour Diet: Watch the Pounds Disappear Without Watching What You Eat!, argue that eating around the clock is responsible for the country's high rates of diabetes and obesity. Their solution? Eat between… » 1/02/13 11:00pm 1/02/13 11:00pm

If you think about it, things are pretty terrific, but they are also pretty fucking terrible, too. Your life is going perfectly well, but looked at from another angle, you are a complete and utter disappointment to everyone. You're really pretty, except when you are not. And the world is a welcoming, open place, when… » 1/02/13 3:10pm 1/02/13 3:10pm

Have you heard about Six Weeks to OMG: Get Skinnier Than All Your Friends, the fad diet du jour that claims "broccoli carbs can be worse than soda carbs" and "small, frequent meals pack on the pounds"? We haven't covered the book (because the title alone represents everything we oppose), but if you commute to work, you… » 8/14/12 2:30pm 8/14/12 2:30pm

Beer goggles are famous for making everything look better, and a new pair of diet goggles are designed to do something very similar. Created by researchers in Japan, the goggles have a little computer inside that magnifies the size of whatever the wearer is holding while keeping their hand the same size. This makes… » 6/06/12 11:55pm 6/06/12 11:55pm

The Atlantic's June cover story, "The Perfected Self," is about how infamous Harvard psychologist B. F. Skinner, who became an industry scapegoat for his much-maligned "fascist and manipulative" behavior modification theory (which is, in a nutshell, that "gentle, punishment-free behavior-modification techniques could… » 5/24/12 11:50am 5/24/12 11:50am

When mice eat high-fat, high-calorie meals but "fast" overnight — meaning, they don't nibble on anything after an active eight-hour day, not even the tiniest piece of cheese — they stay as slender and healthy as mice that eat leaner food, according to a new study. Scientists think this means that humans, too, would… » 5/18/12 12:40pm 5/18/12 12:40pm