Well, it appears to be official:  Obesity has edged out smoking in terms of health hazards.  According to a study performed by Columbia University and the City College of New York and published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, being obese, defined by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) as having a Body Mass Index or BMI of 30 …

A brand new study performed by the Harvard School of Public Health and published in a recent issue of the The New England Journal of Medicine finally lays to rest the age-old question of which diet is the most effective for weight loss.  So if you’ve got a couple of extra pounds you’d like to shed, should you reduce the …