Eating Made Simple
How do you cope with a mountain of conflicting diet advice?
Features
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
What Fuels Fat
The human body's 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...
Still Hungry
One eighth of the world's people do not have enough to eat
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
Is Your Food Contaminated
New approaches are needed to protect the food supply
This is Your Brain on Food
Neuroimaging reveals a shared basis for chocoholia and drug addiction
Sowing a Gene Revolution
A new green revolution based on genetically modified crops can help reduce poverty and hunger—but only if formidable institutional challenges are met
The World Is Fat
More people in the developing world are now overweight than hungry. How can the poorest countries fight obesity?
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Do Living People Outnumber the Dead?
- From the Editor
All You Can't Eat
- Letters
Letters
- Advances
Muons for Peace
Suffering a Slow Recovery
Dangling a COROT
Whatever happened to...?
Healing Broken Nerves
Speaking in Tones
Déjà Vu Disks
Ulcers from the Deep
Life Not as We Know It
Developmental Disorder in Mice Reversed
Prions against Alzheimer's
- Forum
Full Speed Ahead for an Accelerator
- Skeptic
Rational Atheism
- Anti Gravity
What's the Big Idea?
- 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago
Crick's Progress--Flight Incentive--Flame Tamer
- Perspectives
Take Nutrition Claims with a Grain of Salt
- In Brief
Data Points, September 2007
In Brief, September 2007
- Reviews
Cyclic Universe--World of Words--Nuclear Terror
- Working Knowledge
Fresh from the Sea
- Insights
What Visions in the Dark of Light
- Sustainable Developments
Breaking the Poverty Trap
