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Open-government advocate Clay Johnson cofounded Blue State Digital, a firm that engineered Barack Obama’s 2008 online presidential campaign. But after years in Washington, D.C., Johnson, now 34, began to realize that, though he’d been working for years to make government data more accessible to regular citizens, those citizens were not always interested in going directly [...]

ScienceDaily (Jan. 27, 2012) — When people in the U.S. are asked to provide their weight for research surveys, they underestimate their weight and overestimate their height, despite numerous public reports about increasing rates of obesity. Whites are more likely to do so than Blacks or Hispanics, a new study finds. Many surveys about body [...]

Demi Moore (pic: WireImage) When I first met Demi Moore, who always appeared Amazonian on-screen, I was struck by how tiny she was. I expected her to be about 5ft 9in and slim, but muscle-bound. In reality she was around 5ft 5-ish and whippet thin, and also very warm and matey. How she could possibly [...]

For those of us who have resolved to eat healthier and lose weight in the new year, that goal may have just gotten tougher to achieve. If you were already confused about what to eat, a study published on Jan. 4, 2012, in the Journal of the American Medical Association most likely set you in [...]

ScienceDaily (Jan. 26, 2012) — Women have long bemoaned the fact that as they have more children, their weight gain from pregnancy becomes more difficult to lose. A new study using a mouse model that mimics the human effects of multiparity (giving birth more than once) has found that mouse moms who gave birth four [...]

Seeing this photo of Paula Deen devouring a cheeseburger after recently announcing she has type 2 diabetes, it seems like the food celebrity has decided to embark upon a diet I know well. Many Americans religiously adhere to it: The Mañana Diet . If you haven’t heard of it, it’s easy to follow. Here are [...]

When men from Mars and women from Venus try to deal with the modern Earth, the result can become an out-of-sync hormonal dysfunction. John Gray, bestselling author of the groundbreaking Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, is now looking at how modern living and diet disrupt our bodily production of the hormones that [...]

Imagine eating nothing but salt-filled McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets. For 15 years. That’s exactly what Stacey Irvine, a 17-year-old factory worker from England did—and it just may kill her. But before you write this story off as just plain crazy, do you know how much salt you’re taking in? And what it’s doing to your health? [...]

ScienceDaily (Jan. 26, 2012) — A clear association between obesity and pain — with higher rates of pain identified in the heaviest individuals — was found in a study of more than one million Americans published January 19 in the online edition of Obesity. In “Obesity and Pain Are Associated in the United States,” Stony [...]

Expect to see fewer “newsy” online advertisements hawking acai berry diet pills, now that federal regulators have reached settlements with six online marketers who were accused of using fake news sites on the Internet to entice customers to buy pills that promised rapid and substantial weight loss, sometimes claiming people could lose 25 pounds in [...]