How many calories are there in different cuts of chicken?

Learn about the calories in the breasts, thighs, wings, and drumsticks of a chicken with and without skin. Also, discover how cooking methods change the calorie and fat content of chicken.

Consuming toxic chemicals with our fast food? Chemicals of concern found in one third of fast food packaging tested

While enjoying fast food, many people feel some pangs of guilt at the calories and salt they are consuming.

Two thirds of public back "activity equivalent" calorie labelling to tackle obesity crisis

Vast majority unaware of time it takes to walk or run off the calories in food.

Shift focus from calorie counting to nutritional value of foods for heart health, say experts

Clinicians have failed to act for far too long. but human and economic toll make this unaffordable, they argueIt’s time to stop counting the calories, and instead start promoting the nutritional…

Reduced risk of heart disease associated with replacing saturated fat with polyunsaturated fat

People who swap 5% of the calories they consume from saturated fat sources such as red meat and butter with foods containing linoleic acid – the main polyunsaturated fat found in vegetable oil, nuts…

Obesity rates stabilized by better eating habits, not bad economy

All those people who’ve been telling us for years that we should eat more healthy foods and cut our calories – stop, take a moment, and celebrate.It appears that we actually listened.

Walking Minutes Help People Make Healthier Menu Choices

When menus present them with how many minutes of brisk walking it takes to burn off the calories contained in different food options, people tend to choose lower calorie meals. These were the findings of a new study presented at the Experimental Biology 2013 meeting in Boston on Tuesday…

Late Lunching Can Slow Weight Loss

A new study suggests if you are trying to lose weight, then you shouldn’t just keep an eye on the calories you consume, but also when you consume them: if lunch is your big meal of the day, then a tendency to eat it later means you will lose weight more slowly and lose less of it, than if you ate it earlier…

Menus Showing Miles Plus Calories Help People Choose Healthier Meals

A new US study that explores the effect of menu information on people’s choice of fast food meals finds they tend to choose healthier options when shown not only the calories they contain, but also how many miles they would have to walk to burn off those calories…

Fake Fat Linked To Weight Gain

Rats fed a high-fat diet gained more weight after eating low-calorie potato chips made with “fake fat”, a synthetic fat substitute designed to taste like fat but without the calories, according to a study due to appear online in the journal Behavioral Neuroscience this week…

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