Food & Nutrition

The “story” of ultra-processed foods (UPFs) has become a tale of horror, with an ominous, omnipotent corporate villain, “Big Food,” mapping mammalian dopamine pathways to turn vulnerable children and their parents into submissive consumers.

“Wellness influencers” are crawling all over social media platforms.

Good news for the Coke Zero enjoyers among us: in a two-year weight-management program, artificially sweetened drinks were just as effective as water in helping people lose weight and maintain it.

I've had several people ask me if I have second thoughts about my berry consumption in light of a swarm of news stories about some pesticide residues in Driscoll berries “exceeding Canada’s safety standards.” I’ve often talked about my bre

A new meta-analysis in a BMJ Group journal argues for a dose-response association between ultra-processed foods (UPFs) and chronic illness.

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The 1973 movie Sleeper tells the story of a health food store owner who is accidentally cryogenically frozen in 1973 and wakes up 200 years later. Puzzled by the absence of his friends, he asks where they are.

Allulose is a structural variant of fructose. It has the same chemical components, linked together in the same way, but the three-dimensional structure is different. In biological systems, shape matters.

Beans provide protein, an array of micronutrients, and a heavy dose of fiber—a nutrient most Americans lack.

Vitamins are substances that must be included in the diet to maintain health and prevent certain deficiency diseases. They cannot be synthesized by the body in sufficient amounts.