You've probably heard that losing weight is 80 percent about what you eat and 20 percent about how much activity you get. It doesn't matter how many calories you burn at the gym if you follow up your ...

Despite varied approaches to defining portion sizes, a global study reveals that cultural and economic factors shape dietary recommendations more than scientific methods—raising questions about how to ...

If you've spent your entire life trying and failing to follow the serving size listed on the Nutrition Facts label, we've got some good news for you: serving sizes aren't meant to be a recommendation.

Unless you are willing to take a set of scales with you everywhere you go, tracking the portion size of your food is a challenging task. But researchers at the University of Sydney have come up with a ...

Confused about the unsaturated fat content of your food? The serving size? The meaning of "% DV"? Labelman can help. A cartoon creation of the Food and Drug Administration's Center for Food Safety & ...

The Calorie Control Council, a diet food industry association, puts the average as high as 4,500, although I'm guessing that estimate is inflated. To be honest, I have no idea how many calories I ate ...

Most of us struggle to measure how much food we're actually consuming when we're eating out. How much of this pizza constitutes a single portion size? How much pasta is actually in this bowl of ...

Credit: Getty Images. Omega-3 fatty acids, including eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosehexaenoic acid (DHA), have been found to be associated with cardiovascular health benefits. The recommended ...

If you don't pay attention to calories when deciding how much of something to eat, you might want to know that the chefs serving it to you don't either. A survey of 300 restaurant chefs around the ...