Food & Nutrition

There are few food fad movements that we support at ACSH. Organic food, for instance, is a total scam. So are most miracle diets and nutritional supplements. If you eat a relatively well-balanced diet, you're most likely going to be fine.

Rummage around the fringes of nutrition “science” for a while and you’ll soon bump into a strongly held belief that the vegetable oils most of us consider a healthier option—like canola, soy, corn, safflower, peanut and soy oils—will actually lead

As it turns out, for grocers it has diversified their revenue stream but towards a “distribution channel” with a low or in many cases non-existent profitability.

If you have more money than sense, how about spending $129.99 every 18 days on fresh celery juice delivered to your door?

“Stop cutting out white potatoes – they're as healthy as sweet ones, dietitians say,” a recent headline in Insider urges us.

Researchers considered that question specifically for new technology foods, like GMOs, where there is a great deal of public opposition.

Adele’s significant slim down has been credited to a combination of exercise and eating “sirtfoods”. So what is the sirt diet and could it work for you?

By Dr. Elizabeth M. Whelan, co-founder and president of the American Council on Science and Health from 1978-2014.  ###

By Dr. Elizabeth M. Whelan, co-founder and president of the American Council on Science and Health from 1978-2014.  ###

The greatest good is often that which is unnoticed and unknown. Not least among our blessings are the bad things that do not happen and are therefore invisible to us.