At USU's Center for Advanced Nutrition, USTAR scientist Mike Lefevre is exploring nutritional tools to combat such modern-day plagues as cardiovascular disease and Type 2 diabetes.

Utah State University undergraduate Andrew Burgon tells family and friends his faculty mentor David York is to obesity research what director Steven Spielberg is to filmmaking.

More times than not, poor eating habits bring low self-esteem, high blood pressure, weight gain and the resulting never-ending question about whether to start a diet this Monday or the next.

Before you rip open a bag of chips or reach for a jelly doughnut, take heed. If you want to lose weight, you'll have to expend more calories than you take in.