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.

"Attn:" is an activist website that produces extremely popular videos, some of which feature the esteemed scientist (all actors consider themselves scientists) Zooey Deschanel.
It is Easter, and all of our thoughts turn to candy as we spend $2.1 billion, roughly $28 per person.
As every educated foodie knows, one of the world's best superfoods is quinoa. The only problem is that there's no such thing as a superfood, and there's nothing particularly unique about quinoa.
Trying to determine the causative agent for outbreaks of foodborne illnesses can be a gargantuan epidemiological task.
Just ahead of barbecue season, here's something to stress about: grilling and charring red meat, chicken, and fish at high temps could lead to high blood pressure, according to a recent study from the American Heart Association.
Anyone not living under a rock is aware that the prevalence of obesity in this country (and indeed around the world) has been increasing for decades.
Everything, it seems, goes in cycles.
While it is a few days late for LePrecon, the pub crawl through Hoboken celebrating St.
Anyone interested in building muscle knows that adequate (or perhaps more than adequate) dietary protein (plus exercise, of course) is crucial.
I was vacationing in Europe last week but I took an evening to appear on a panel at a "human rights fil