Actress Octavia Spencer, former spokesperson for the weight-loss drug Sensa, sued the company for backpay and is now headed to court. » 7/22/14 12:40pm 7/22/14 12:40pm

Senator Claire McCaskill, chair of the Senate's Consumer Protection panel, is NOT JAZZED ABOUT DR. OZ. In fact, she spent half of Tuesday grilling him on why he keeps going on television and telling people that if they just eat enough $45 magic beans they'll wake up with a thigh gap like a soccer goal (and then:… » 6/19/14 5:20pm 6/19/14 5:20pm

Uh-oh. Hear those sirens outside? It sounds like the food police have arrived! Hide your nachos, everybody! Don't let them see you near the snacks! » 6/05/14 7:45pm 6/05/14 7:45pm

So, yeah. Clay. She eats it. Hers is sourced from Colorado. » 5/06/14 2:20pm 5/06/14 2:20pm

Meet Freelee "The Banana Girl," a self-styled diet guru who has developed a program consisting of large meals of a single raw fruit or vegetable. In one YouTube video, she demonstrated how she consumes 51 bananas in one day, adding a new, pun-y layer to the whole "you are what you eat" ethos. B-A-N-A-N-A-S. » 4/11/14 12:10pm 4/11/14 12:10pm

There’s beef in the butter aisle. Last week, we learned that we could indulge in butter-y goodness again and this week, maybe we can't. » 3/31/14 1:50pm 3/31/14 1:50pm

Milk drinking isn't a hobby for everyone — only those of us with enough enzymes can indulge in the sweet, delicious mammary juice that spurts from the machine-manipulated udders of a stressed cow that wonders everyday why the small, hairless apes who've imprisoned her in a barn factory insist on treating her like a… » 2/16/14 3:00pm 2/16/14 3:00pm

Ever spent time looking for the calories listed on your food at the grocery store? I have and it's not fun, but someone told the Food and Drug Administration about my struggle and they're considering some "revisions." Yay. » 1/24/14 10:25am 1/24/14 10:25am

Women go on twice as many diets in their lifetime than they have sexual partners. Probably because we hate ourselves and think we don't deserve to be happy—which we don't if we're so lame that we choose dieting over fucking. » 1/21/14 4:00pm 1/21/14 4:00pm

And you thought shitting your pants on Alli was bad: A 26-year-old Army Reservist and sociology student is suing an East New York health food store, alleging that "Natural Lipo X," the not-at-all-fake-sounding fat-burning pills they sold her, were so messed up that she was briefly committed: » 1/09/14 10:50am 1/09/14 10:50am

Tuesday was a terrible day for shady diets in America. » 1/08/14 11:00am 1/08/14 11:00am

U.S. News and World Report, known mostly for its essentially meaningless rankings of institutes of higher learning, is getting into the diet game. Just what you'd always hoped would happen! So, with so many fun diet trends out there, which will be No. 1? A diet that mandates you eat one lump of oats every nine and… » 1/07/14 6:55pm 1/07/14 6:55pm

Good news everybody (who has decided to take up the "lose weight" hobby for the early stages of the New Year)! SCIENCE, that monolith of snazzy ideas that has helped us, as a species, do everything from land on the Moon to create indestructible breakfast cereals, may have devised an excellent way to fight obesity — a… » 1/05/14 12:30pm 1/05/14 12:30pm