As part of the Weight and Win program, the people from Colorado, who have dropped weight, will get from $15 to $150. Full story

Traditionally, the Americans more often appeal to lead a healthy lifestyle and promote a cult of beauty and youth. In reality, fewer and fewer residents of the USA prefer to go in for sports in their free time, as a survey of several tens of thousands of people has shown. Full story

American doctors confessed they give their patients so-called placebo treatment that has no therapeutic effect. Although the doctors now admitted the fact, they've been using this kind of therapy for a long time, prescribing medically neutral drugs. Physiologically, however, placebo effect is beneficial. Patient's trust in medicine often brings long-awaited "recovery". Full story