Food & Nutrition

Science-backed reporting on diet, nutrients, food systems, and how what we eat affects health — cutting through trends to examine what the evidence actually shows.

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.
Turns out there’s nothing quite like a pandemic to bring out the nutrition crazies.
 One of the most frightening scenarios that one may face in life is the loss of the ability to eat or eat enough. As it is, the horrific happening of Covid-19 may compromise oral and other routes of gastrointestinal nutrient repletion.