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.

It's well established that the basic formula for healthier living and improved physical strength is achieved through a combination of sensible eating and regular exercise, where some lifting of weights is an integral component.
You best get your drink on this week, while beer and wine consumption is good for you!
The question of which diet is best for which people has led to some strange prescriptions, such as the worthless Blood Type Diet (see here for our take on this one).
A recently published story in the BMJ  links the risk of breast cancer and all cancers to consumption of what are termed "ultra-processed" foods.
The Trump administration has recently proposed a rather drastic change to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
A recent study shed light on something we've known for some time, but haven't quite lived by: Eating slowly could curb weight gain. Here's why this makes sense. 
American snowboarder slash Superwoman Chloe Kim just won her first Olympic gold medal in the Women's Snowboardi
Obviously, we need food labels. We need to know what the product is in that multicolored can or box, and having the information on the nutritional content of the product can be helpful when used appropriately.
This flu season, one product is making its comeback: orange juice. Sales of OJ seem to have gotten a boost — after years of decline — due to consumers' fears of getting the dreaded illness. 
Major universities (think Harvard, Columbia, Duke, and the University of California), have hopped on the "alternative medicine" bandwagon, establishing centers and programs to supposedly evaluate treatments not based on Western medicine.
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