A large research study has found that carrying extra fat around the belly—often called a “beer belly”—may be more harmful to ...

Over three years, a research team has collected increasingly complex samples of edible fat for research. They are using new data to characterize the nanoscale structure of different kinds of edible ...

A new study suggests that the mysterious Stonehenge structure may have been built using pig fat. The study, published in Antiquity, suggests that the pig fat residue seen on nearby pottery could ...

In a new study published in Nature Communications, researchers at Karolinska Institutet and Queen Mary University of London have investigated how the physical structure of fat tissue helps ovarian ...

Since Indians develop heart disease at lower waist sizes, a cardiologist explains why you need to do more than just take ...

Preserving the natural structure of plant-based food products during the processing process can limit the amount of fat and energy absorbed by the body, new research suggests. A study by researchers ...

Despite what fad diets and catchy headlines would lead you to believe, fat is not all the same. And you need to stop treating it that way. So if you operate by a “fat is fat and fat is bad” sort of ...

Dietary fat tends to have a bad reputation. Despite what you may have heard, eating fat doesn’t make you fat — as long as you eat it in moderation. In fact, fat is an essential part of a balanced diet ...

Fat free ice cream, for all its healthy merits, melts the wrong way. Two seconds on the tongue and it's a slush of milk, flavoring and water instead of the rich glob of slowly melting cream we grew to ...