Google the word “diet” and you get about 121 million hits. Top listings include a half-dozen diet companies, from the old-fashioned Weight Watchers to the more trendy South Beach Diet. Having visited South Beach during spring break, this stretch of sand certainly has its fair share of beautiful bodies — so creating an eponymous diet is clever marketing. But with 121 million options to choose from, where should the consumer begin? Diets of all types work MORE

Holidays are fast approaching. That means lots of eating out, consuming richer foods than normal, and drinking. And all those surplus calories? They end up in the biological bank account. But unlike our federal budget, it’s a surplus no American needs these days. If we could only save money like we store calories in this country, we’d be the envy of the financial world. Evolutionary biology does not make things easy for us. Our caloric engines were MORE

“Well now I’ve done it,” I grimaced as I crashed to the ground, my daughter cradled in my left arm and my right arm hanging limply at my side, below a very dislocated shoulder. I’d been trying to get myself and her to the top of an inflatable slide at the pool, thinking it would be great fun to shoot down together into the water. Trouble was, I didn’t have the traction to get up MORE