It sounds too good to be true: Eat dessert with breakfast and lose weight! You freakin' wish! I yell back at my laptop. Which cannot hear me. But I saw the words "researchers at Tel Aviv University" and decided this wacky story needed a second look.

Shockingly enough, it sounds like it's legit. They compared people who ate a 600-calorie breakfast with people who ate a low-carb, 300-calorie breakfast. Both groups consumed the same total number of calories per day, it's just that the 600-calorie group front-loaded theirs. And those breakfasts included cake, cookies, and other treats. Not only did the big-breakfasters report feeling more satisfied, long-term they also lost more weight. Like, a lot more.

No matter how hard we try to sit down and enjoy a breakfast with our entire family, some days we just have to eat on the run. Think early school assembly, PTA meeting, basically any old Tuesday. So it's necessary to have a few breakfast bites in your repertoire. Food you can hold in your hand, and eat while moving forward.

Instead of heading to the drive-thru where they wrap it up in that thin paper so nicely for you, consider doing something better for yourself and your health. Here are five handheld breakfast bites that actually will give you some necessary nutrition to start your day.

Can you imagine how sick you'd be if you ate only fast-food chicken nuggets and nothing but chicken nuggets (apart from the occasional order of fries) for years and years and years? Um, yeah … pretty sick, as it turns out. A British teen named Stacey Irvine apparently learned that the hard way. After eating a diet almost exclusively comprised of fast food nuggets for the last 15 years – yes, since she was only 2 – the 17-year-old factory worker was rushed to the hospital two weeks ago after she collapsed, unable to breathe. Her unhealthy fast food addiction (no fruits, no vegetables; only fried chickenish items and french fries) had caused her to suffer from anemia, extreme deficiencies in vitamins and nutrients, and (get this) inflamed veins on her tongue. (Ick!)

Would you take weight-loss advice from a doctor who could stand to lose a few (or maybe more than a few) pounds him- or herself? Interestingly, if your doctor is overweight, he or she might not actually give you the chance to make that call. A new nationwide survey of primary care physicians has found that doctors who have a normal body mass index (BMI) are more likely to discuss weight-loss with patients who are overweight or obese than doctors who are themselves overweight or obese. Overweight and obese doctors also said they felt less confident giving patients advice on diet and exercise. In other words, a physician's own body weight may affect the care he or she gives patients.

Are we surprised by this?

It's been 25 days since the first of the year when we all vowed to eat right, exercise more, and make 2012 our year to rock a bikini ... or at least appear publicly in a swimsuit of some sort. How are you doing on your resolutions?

Judging from attendance at my gym, I'd say many of us are still going strong. But I know that as the chocolates of Valentine's Day start springing up, and the weeks pass by, we often leave our good intentions in the dust ... covered by a heap of chocolate wrappers. So how to prevent what feels like the inevitable from happening?

Another day, another dieting study, right? But today brings one that, I must say, is decidedly not the "same old, same old." Using a plate or glass or bowl that is either red or red-trimmed or even has a red sticker on it may prompt people to eat or drink less, a Swiss study has found. Researchers think it may have something to do with our association of the color red with the concept of "stopping" or "danger." Yes, just the merest hint of the color red on our dishware may help us take in less calories and lose weight. Isn't that crazy?

OK, so first of all, who thinks up studies like this? But also, how fascinating!

Are you fat? If so, guess what? You might be neurotic, too! A boatload of new research is building a case around the conclusion that obesity may well be linked to specific personality traits, according to the Wall Street Journal. One recent study found that people who are more neurotic (prone to negative emotions) and not very conscientious (disorganized, undisciplined) are more likely to be overweight or obese.

In fact, the Journal names particular personality types that tend toward weight gain: The Night Owl, The Stress Junkie, The Mindless Multitasker, The Giver, The Perfectionist.

If you were to conjure up in your fantasies the most obnoxious household appliance imaginable, what would it look like? Could it be a fascist refrigerator that sizes you up and then yells at you for pulling out the chocolate pudding? What about a refrigerator that tells you to eat celery instead when it catches you reaching for the Cheez-It spray can? Or a refrigerator that has all of vegan chef Kathy Freston's recipes memorized, and recites them to you when you go for the bacon?

Well today is your lucky day, readers! Such a refrigerator has been invented: It's the LG ThinQ Smart refrigerator. Hooray, hooray! Now you too can own a Nag Robot that also happens to store your food at safely-chilled temperatures. Let's talk more about how this would not be at all helpful, shall we?