Dieting

Does my butt look fat? Does my butt look fat?

Well, it is. And it's OK to say it, because after decades of agonizing over my weight, I've finally realized that the F-word isn't dirty.
By Kate Harding Jan 24, 2009

  • Not-so-bulging brides

    Has pre-wedding dieting gotten out of control?
    By Catherine Price July 15, 2008

  • Charles Atlas will make a man of you!

    Forget Wii Fit and Perfect Pushup suction cups. To get in shape, I went back to the original fitness guru -- "the world's most perfectly developed man."
    By Todd Levin July 15, 2008

  • Study: Most women "disordered eaters"

    Self magazine finds that 75 percent of women have an unhealthy relationship with food.
    By Tracy Clark-Flory April 25, 2008

  • Hey, skinny bitch!

    It's a vegan manifesto masquerading as a diet fad. But the only thing this weight-loss book will help you lose is self-esteem.
    By Julie Klausner February 11, 2008

  • Michael Pollan's manifesto on eating well

    The polemical sequel to "The Omnivore's Dilemma," Pollan's new book shows how processed foods are making us fat and sick -- and why eaters must revolt.
    By Craig Seligman January 8, 2008

  • The diet that's too good to be true

    Thousands of diabetics control their weight by skipping insulin shots. It's easy, effective -- and potentially lethal.
    By Ann Bauer November 8, 2007

  • A diet for a small planet that includes some (but not much) meat

    Carnivores, relax. You are not necessarily destroying the earth. Notes from a veggie vs. steak diet showdown.
    By Andrew Leonard October 9, 2007

  • Plus size, minus a few years

    More retailers to offer larger clothes for larger kids, analysts predict.
    By Lynn Harris September 12, 2007

  • The losers' circle

    From munching parties to Slim-Fast to Atkins, we've spent centuries trying to lose weight -- despite all the evidence that diets don't work.
    By Julia Wallace May 16, 2007

  • Do kids make you fat?

    A new study looks at the nutritional cost of parenting.
    By Carol Lloyd January 12, 2007

  • A turning point for girls

    Girls ages 9 to 12 are especially susceptible to weight gain. How can parents and schools encourage healthy habits without going too far?
    By Catherine Price January 9, 2007

  • More good news about breast cancer

    A low-fat diet may help reduce women's risk of a breast cancer recurrence.
    By Page Rockwell December 18, 2006

  • The professor of pigging out

    Brian Wansink, of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab, dishes about food self-delusion, holiday dieting, and how it might be the size of your plate -- not pie -- that's responsible for your paunch.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski November 28, 2006

  • What else we're reading

    Face lifts, depressed babies, gay politicians and more!
    By Carol Lloyd November 9, 2006

  • Women beware! Shacking up with a m-a-n can make you fat!

    Study says that cohabitation leads to weight gain for women, but not for men.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski April 6, 2006

  • Confessions of a sleep eater

    My name is Gary, and I eat White Castle cheeseburgers while snoring.
    By Garrison Keillor February 15, 2006

  • FDA: Better skinny than slutty

    Panel recommends OTC status for "controversial" emergency contraception -- no, sorry, diet pill.
    By Lynn Harris January 25, 2006

  • 'Tis the season to obsess about food

    Thanksgiving yams, Chanukah latkes, Christmas cookies ... for me, they all add up to a holiday-size serving of self-hatred.
    By Ayelet Waldman December 12, 2005

  • Getting religion about health

    Mike Huckabee, Arkansas' newly skinny governor, weighs in on the humilation of being fat, why government shouldn't police our grease, and whether he's planning to diet his way to the White House.
    By Katharine Mieszkowski May 31, 2005

  • The girth of a nation

    Americans are way too fat -- right? Well, maybe not. A controversial new book claims that our diet-crazed culture is buying into a big lie.
    By Rebecca Traister June 29, 2004
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