Maybe you don’t want to know. The Center for Science in the Public Interest has just released the shocking truth about the calories and fat grams you’ll find in a menu’s worth of popular restaurant dishes.

A pot full of recent findings suggest that caffeine can keep our brains active and prevent age-related decline. Indeed, rresearchers now think that the most widely used psychoactive substance in the world normalizes brain function and prevents neurological degeneration.

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.