Food & Nutrition

Never let it be said that ACSH isn't at the forefront of reporting critical topics. No siree, if something important breaks, we're on it. And fast. 

The latest 2020-2025 US Dietary Guidelines, which are updated every five years, landed over the holidays with the usual flurry of claims that vested interests have meddled with them.

I have already illustrated that organic food is no safer or healthier as explained here and

The quote is from GenoPalate, one of several websites using nutrigenomics to craft an individual diet plan for you or me.

It's too bad I went for the Ph.D. Financially speaking, I should have probably stopped with a BS.

For the last 15 years, I have taught an introductory nutrition course at a local junior college.

Antioxidants are chemical compounds that can be a vitamin, mineral, enzyme, or one of thousands of other naturally occurring plant chemicals and many that are naturally produced by our bodies.

Many of these headlines attribute these recommendations to Dr. Fauci. The myth of vitamin C supplements assisting in immunity is nothing new, and if Dr.

I rarely see anyone looking at food labels. We make our food choices based on taste, price, and our sense of what might be good or bad for us.