LiveScience.com - Most health stores are tainted with the irony that so few of their products are actually healthy, from herbal potions of unknown purity and utility to dietary supplements capitalizing on recent trends in weight loss or hair gain.

LiveScience.com - Here's a possible future diet tip: Move to a mountaintop.

HealthDay - WEDNESDAY, Feb. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Adding more evidence to theories linking DNA to weight, European scientists report that a genetic variation seems to virtually guarantee that a person will become obese.

AFP - Debate over the obesity epidemic sweeping parts of the world has focussed on whether lifestyle -- too much junk food and couch-potato living -- is the big culprit or whether genes are also to blame.

HealthDay - TUESDAY, Feb. 2 (HealthDay News) -- Obesity causes later onset of puberty in boys, new research indicates.

HealthDay - TUESDAY, Feb. 2 (HealthDay News) -- American scientists say they may have found a new way to trick the body into burning more fat.

AFP - First Lady Michelle Obama on Tuesday went to war against childhood obesity, meeting with US lawmakers to prepare the battle plans.

Reuters - A few extra pounds might help you live longer if you're past your prime but otherwise healthy, a new study finds.

Reuters - Waiting longer to start infants on solid food could make for slimmer adults, new research shows.

AFP - Mexico's rich diet of tacos, tortillas and tortas (large sandwiches), which is jokingly nicknamed Vitamin T, has steered its children to the top of world obesity charts.