When dining at Chinese Buffets, overweight individuals serve themselves and eat differently than normal weight individuals.

Tempting treats are being offered in small package sizes these days, presumably to help consumers reduce portion sizes. Yet new research in the Journal of Consumer Research found that people actually consume more high-calorie snacks when they are in small packages than large ones.

Can watching TV news or crime shows trigger overeating? According to new research in the Journal of Consumer Research, people who are thinking about their own deaths want to consume more.

Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, have found socially subordinate female rhesus macaques over consume calorie-rich foods at a significantly higher level than do dominant females.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, close to one-third of the population in the United States is obese and another third is overweight. Excessive weight gain is elicited by alterations in energy balance, the finely modulated equilibrium between caloric intake and expenditure.

Researchers say people who just can't stop eating may be able to lay much of the blame on their genes. A study in the United States has found that as much as 50 per cent of the population carries a gene variation that may give them extra pleasure from eating.

Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have identified a long-sought "master switch" in mice for the production of brown fat, a type of adipose tissue that generates heat and counters obesity caused by overeating.

People watching the Super Bowl who saw how much they had already eaten - in this case, leftover chicken-wing bones - ate 27 percent less than people who had no such environmental cues, finds a new Cornell study.