David DiSalvo, Contributor

While the marketing of healthier offerings may be getting better, fast food overall is less healthy now than anytime in the last three decades, a new analysis finds.

Tracking what we eat and drink sounds tedious and painful, but new research explains why just a few minutes of doing it throughout the day can lead to significant weight-loss.

Mental and physical activity during middle age may reduce risk of various forms of dementia as the years roll on, finds new research that tracked outcomes for more than four decades.

A new study shows that no single dietary approach has a monopoly on improving mood.

A new study shows that beyond short-term dangers, binge drinking may also alter us at the genetic level, with longer-term implications than we realize.

New research adds to a list of studies finding a link between social media use and feelings of loneliness. How to interpret the results, however, is anything but crystal clear.

If sleep is lacking, you may find that your response to pain during the day is more intense. New research looked into the brain to find out why, with results suggesting that sleep is essential for keeping our pain response on the right neural rails.

Brain-health supplements are a multi-billion dollar industry that’s getting bigger, but a team of neurologists is questioning whether these products are really benefiting consumers, and asking doctors to do a better job of educating patients about the …

Insomnia affects millions of people every night, and often the solutions proposed to help sufferers do little or nothing. New research suggests that we need new ways of looking at the problem.

A movement called “Dry January” endorses taking a month off drinking alcohol at the start of the year to reap benefits all year. New research suggests that the movement’s proponents may just be onto something.