If the local 24-hour Fitness is any measure, sports drinks seem to be the favored breakfast of champions these days. But a new study by researchers at the University of Texas at Austin suggests that the best pre-workout meal is a whole grain cereal with milk.

Like your tea piping hot? Beware: served too hot, tea or other beverages may raise your risk of thoat and esophageal cancer.

You’re hungry, you’ve only got a limited amount of time, and the only option in sight is a fast-food joint. Sure it’s convenient. But a new study shows that having a fast food outlet nearby could also increase your risk of getting fat.

Most people who are allergic to peanuts avoid them like the plague. Now a new study suggests that the best way to cure this most common of food allergies may actually be to eat peanuts. But please: don’t try this at home.

For centuries, native Americans have revered cranberries for their healing powers. Modern science is proving them right.

Hoping to get junior to eat his broccoli? Don’t call it broccoli. Call it dinosaur broccoli trees. That’s the advice offered at the annual meeting of the School Nutrition Association in Washington D.C. this week.

Restaurants aren’t the only places guilty of portion creep. Follow the recipes for a home-cooked meal in the latest version of America’s favorite cookbook and you may find yourself serving up more calories than ever before.

Susan B. Roberts, author of The Instinct Diet: Use Your Five Food Instincts to Lose Weight and Keep It Off (Workman Publishing, 2009), is a professor of both nutrition and psychiatry at Tufts University. And while her diet plan won’t guarantee success, it represents just about the best scientific approach to smart weight loss you’ll find. Roberts’ premise isn’t groundbreaking. But some of her advice, especially relating to taming hunger, is worth repeating.

Call her Bessie. Call her Daisy. Call her Buttercup. Just call that cow something. A new study by researchers at Newcastle University’s School of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development finds that cows given pet names produce more milk–up to an extra 500 pints a year!–than cows that are just anonymous members of the herd.

Oprah’s back on the weight-loss bandwagon. “How did I let this happen again?” she asks in the January issue of O. From a low of 160 pounds, she’s climbed back up to 200 pounds–and she’s determined, once again, to get them off. After reading “Feed Me!: Writers Dish About Food, Eating, Weight, and Body Image,” I couldn’t help wondering if Oprah wouldn’t have served women better–make that all of us–by saying, “That’s it. I’m through with dieting. I’m through trying to be someone I’m not. I love my ample self. Hallelujah!”