Fitness & Nutrition

Physical exercise, diet and supportive counseling are the first steps of any weight-loss program. But sometimes that's not enough to take large amounts of weight off, and keep it off, doctors say.

Surgery Helps Some Obese Teens In Battle To Get Fit

8:18pm November 06, 2015

by Patti Neighmond

Three years after bariatric surgery, more than 200 severely obese teens studied had dropped about a third of their weight and improved their metabolism, heart health and self-esteem.

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If I log that milkshake do the calories still count?

Weight-Loss App Doesn't Help Young Adults Shed Pounds

5:25pm November 06, 2015

by Lynne Shallcross

We love apps. We'd love to lose weight. So weight-loss apps sound like a win. But tech-savvy young adults using an app didn't do any better than those trying to control weight the old-fashioned way.

Microbiologist Mi Kang works to identify a strain of E. coli from a specimen in a lab at the Washington State Department of Health on Tuesday in Shoreline, Wash.

CDC Investigating As E. Coli Outbreak Linked To Chipotle Sickens 39

12:23pm November 05, 2015

by Allison Aubrey

Thirty-nine people have been sickened with the same strain of E. coli in Washington and Oregon. Fourteen have been hospitalized. Most reported eating at several Chipotle locations before falling ill.

Jorje Mendez has lost more than 45 pounds through weightlifting and other lifestyle changes. Trainer Johnny Gonzales, right, helps prediabetic patients at the gym he set up at the Lake County Tribal Health Clinic in California.

Tribal Clinic Deploys A Gym To Fend Off Diabetes

11:50am November 04, 2015

by Farida Jhabvala Romero

The tribal health clinic in Lakeport, Calif., has a gym where patients of all ages with prediabetes get free fitness training, along with diet advice. The goal: Stop diabetes before it starts.

Chipotle restaurant workers fill orders for customers. The company is now sourcing some of its pork from a British supplier that uses antibiotics to treat pigs when ill. Gail Hansen, a veterinarian and longtime critic of antibiotic overuse on farms, welco

Why Chipotle's Hard Line On Swine Antibiotics Is Now Blurry

8:16pm November 03, 2015

by Dan Charles

Some Chipotle restaurants now sell pork from pigs that received antibiotics to treat illness. It's a move that acknowledges the drugs can be used responsibly on farms.

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Jackie Rodriguez Peña prepares a frog smoothie at her stand at the Mercado de las Brujas in Lima, Peru.

In Peru, Folk Remedies Like Frog Smoothies Are Comfort Food

3:59pm November 03, 2015

by Mollie Bloudoff-Indelicato

Peru's capital, Lima, has a witches market that boasts a smorgasbord of charms and salves that hawkers promise will cure any ailment.

Pad kee mao, one of the plant-based offerings from The Purple Carrot.

Health & Safety

From Gray Lady To Purple Carrot: Bittman Adds Spice To Vegan Meal Startup

5:42pm November 02, 2015

by Allison Aubrey

Bittman left a gig as The New York Times' influential food writer to join a meal-kit delivery firm that wants to make it easier for people to eat plant-based meals at home.

Turmeric, on left, was used to make the yellow in the cupcakes on the right.

Move Over, Yellow 6. More Natural Colors From Plants Are Coming

2:09pm November 02, 2015

by Lynne Shallcross

From purple carrots and cabbage to grapes, the food industry is finding new ways to derive natural colors from plants. It's happening just as consumers are pushing Big Food to ditch artificial colors.

A field near harvest time at Meyers Farm in Bethel, Alaska, can now grow crops like cabbage outside in the ground, due to rising temperatures.

Rising Temperatures Kick-Start Subarctic Farming In Alaska

1:02pm November 01, 2015

by Daysha Eaton

Producers and consumers in southwestern Alaska see one upside to climate change. It's now possible to farm in parts of the tundra where agriculture was unheard of just a few years ago.

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You probably wouldn't want to eat these Jack O'Lanterns since they've been carved and sitting out. But this variety of pumpkin is perfectly edible and nutritious.

Do We Waste A Lot Of Pumpkins We Could Be Eating?

5:09pm October 30, 2015

by Alastair Bland

Halloween pumpkins are nutritious and perfectly edible — if they haven't been carved and left outside for days. And yet we throw almost all of them away. Here's what happened when we cooked with one.