To size up what might make chickens happy in their brief lives, researchers at the University of Guelph, Ontario are putting 16 breeds through physical fitness and behavioural tests.

Cereal makers paid for studies in support of the belief that eating breakfast can help keep us thin.

It was a startling scientific finding: Children who eat candy tend to weigh less than those who don't.

Global Energy Balance Network, a nonprofit funded by Coca-Cola to said on its website Monday night that it is "discontinuing operations due to resource limitations." The decision was effective immediately.