A friend of mine, who works in the natural foods industry, recently remarked: If junk food is made with organic products, it’s still junk food.

Mass-marketed snacks routinely claim to be organic, but does green-washing work — or just remind us to eat more healthfully?

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Food labels are confusing! Tina talks with renown nutritionist Dr. David Katz, who recently unveiled a new and improved rating system called, “Overall Nutritional Quality Index” or ONQI. Using a 1-to-100 scale (100 being the healthiest) the system will evaluate all foods in your grocery store.

The average American spends nine years — that's right, almost a decade — of their life watching TV.

What's really inside a Twinkie? A new book takes apart the world's most famous junk food -- and takes the reader on a wild ride through the bizarre world of processed foods.

Another day, another neurosis about eating right and living a good life. Su Avasthi on why it ain't easy being green.

Some Americans really do care about what they eat. That's the word, at least. In an effort to keep up with this slowly growing segment of the population - the one that is not content to live on Egg McMuffins and Whoppers - several major players in the junk food industry are in the process of reconsidering what they put in their products.

If healthy soda, gum, and chocolate bars seem like too great of an oxymoron to get over - I'm with you. I understand. But this is our reality. According to an article in today's USA Today, market researcher Mintel reports that "health-conscious consumers have made foods and beverages with natural and organic labeling or FDA-approved health claims a $44 billion-a-year business." Junk food manufacturers want in on the action.

Sorry, South Beach diet, it’s over. You were just an aberration for the Fast Food Nation.

Sales of burgers, fries, and doughnuts are soaring, according to Business Week. Fried chicken’s selling so well that KFC’s even thinking about spelling out its name again.

Americans are back on the junk food bandwagon in denial or defiance of all the warnings about high fat diets. But are the fast food outlets really to blame?

Morgan Spurlock morphed in one month from lean and vital to lethargic and doughy with his all-McDonald’s-all-the-time-diet in “Super Size Me.”

Now comes “Portion Size Me,” a documentary from James Painter, professor at the School of Family and Consumer Sciences at Eastern Illinois University, who makes the case that the true culprit is oversized portions.

A new study from Cornell University backs up Professor Painter’s claims. Researchers found that “large portions of food push people to overeat—even to overeat foods they don’t like.”

In the study, moviegoers were given medium and large buckets of stale popcorn. Those with the big buckets ate 34% more than participants with medium buckets, even though the popcorn was two weeks old.

Evidently, if you serve it, they will eat. And eat. And eat.