A major new study shows that older women who eat even tiny daily portions of red meat can more than double their breast cancer risk.

Researchers have figured out how the average omnivore can extend her life span. The secret: isotope-enhanced food.

The world’s love for the dark stuff is causing a massive global shortage of cacao beans.

Eating on the job is just as fraught as workday drinking these days, judging from recent stories in blogland and the papers.

Competitive eating may get a lot of media attention these days, but sword-swallowing has become the first esophagus-busting sport to attract scholarly study.

Psst—know where to buy a mobile slaughterhouse? The state of Vermont may soon be in the market for a pair of ‘em, according to the AP.

A London restaurant is now offering gratis eats to the most waifish of models, in an apparent effort to combat anorexia in the fashion world. Will they bite?

On Tuesday the maker of Snickers said it would discontinue its latest ad, responding to complaints by gay-rights organizations that the commercial was homophobic.

Proving itself as big-biz-friendly as ever, the FDA has announced that it has no plans to require special labels on the cloned-animal products that it is expected to approve within the next year.

In a post that launched some interesting discussion on Serious Eats, Adam Roberts of Amateur Gourmet asks, “Does Cooking Make You Gay?”

If you’ve always secretly wanted to nosh on delicious-smelling Christmas-tree branches, why not cook with them?

Eat less and live longer? Interest in calorie restriction is on the upswing—particularly if actual starvation isn’t on the menu.

When eating well becomes an obsession: Slashfood and UK newspaper The Guardian take a look at orthorexia, a burgeoning form of OCD.

Two exchanges between food purveyors and critical eaters prove a point: The pen is mightier than the fork.

A creepy video produced by a PETA volunteer undercover at a slaughterhouse makes us think about the ethics of both killing animals and advocating for vegetarianism.