A fear of food?

With so many people approaching blimp size in the United States, it's easy to overlook - or much scarier - admire those folks with eating disorders. This piece looks at the experience of one family trying to help their teenage daughter overcome anorexia and is an engaging look into how little we understand the disease.

Why we eat (that much)

Given the vast scale (pardon the pun) of America's obesity epidemic, I find the kind of psychological analysis done by Professor Brian Wansink to be a fascinating insight into American culture - where we value food based on price per quantity and little else. He's a Cornell psychologists whose food lab tests to see what kind of social and physical cues people use to shape their eating habits. The discovery? That people frequently eat more than they think they did. The cause? Everything from larger dinnerware to the company at the table.