Features

• Eating Made Simple

  How do you cope with a mountain of conflicting diet advice?

  Marion Nestle   | September 1, 2007  | 6

• Can Fat Be Fit?

  A well-publicized study and a spate of popular books raise questions about the ill effects of being overweight. Their conclusions are probably wrong

  Paul Raeburn   | September 1, 2007  | 3

• A Question of Sustenance

  Globalization ushered in a world in which more than a billion are overfed. Yet hundreds of millions still suffer from hunger's persistent scourge

  Gary Stix   | September 1, 2007  |

• Sowing a Gene Revolution

  A new green revolution based on genetically modified crops can help reduce poverty and hungerbut only if formidable institutional challenges are met

  Terri Raney and Prabhu Pingali   | September 1, 2007  |

• This is Your Brain on Food

  Neuroimaging reveals a shared basis for chocoholia and drug addiction

  Kristin Leutwyler Ozelli   | September 1, 2007  |

• The World Is Fat

  More people in the developing world are now overweight than hungry. How can the poorest countries fight obesity?

  Barry M. Popkin   | September 1, 2007  |

• Is Your Food Contaminated

  New approaches are needed to protect the food supply

  Mark Fischetti   | September 1, 2007  |

• What Fuels Fat

  The human bodys ability to store energy as fat seems haywire in a world full of food. Understanding how our complex energy-regulating systems can falter and lead to obesity is revealing new ways to fight excess weight

  Jeffrey S. Flier and Eleftheria Maratos-Flier   | September 1, 2007  |

• This is Your Brain on Food (extended version)

  Neuroimaging reveals a shared basis for chocoholia and drug addiction

  Kristin Leutwyler Ozelli   | September 1, 2007  |

• Still Hungry

  One eighth of the worlds people do not have enough to eat

  Per Pinstrup-Andersen and Fuzhi Cheng   | September 1, 2007  | 1