Food & Nutrition

Critics of the United Kingdom's government health plan, the National Health Service, sit on both sides.

Is breakfast really the most important meal of the day, and if you habitually skip it are you dooming yourself to obesity and worse?

Last spring we wrote about contamination of raw milk with the dangerous bacterium Listeria monocytogenes, and this fall about a different co

Using data from 3 large prospective epidemiological studies, the Nurses' Health Study, the Nurses' Health Study II, and the Health Professionals Follow-up Study, investigator looked at the possible associations between consumption of peanuts and t

In 1980 China activated their one-child only policy, in an attempt to slow the growth of the population. In 2016, that policy was rescinded  — but some of its effects will be felt for years to come.

Here's news of a study that's worth reading. And you might want to pour yourself a hot cup of coffee while doing so.

In spite of what the fear-mongers might tell us, the presence of trace amounts of chemicals in our foods will not be the death of us — any of us.

In a nod to science, Newsweek reported that there might be genetic underpinnings to obesity.

PILGRIMS were well acquainted with turkeys. Conquistadors captured them 200 years earlier and brought them home as royal treasures.

With the holiday season fast approaching, inevitably we will succumb to reckless dietary choices because, what the hey, we have been good the rest of the year, right?