Food & Nutrition

Public-health campaigns focusing on reducing smoking have found that including graphically disturbing images in their messaging has proven to be effective.

If you just read the headlines, you'd immediately run to your pantry (or wherever you keep soft drink) and pour all your diet sodas down the sink.

How many minutes is your commute to work? The average American spends around 25 minutes - one way - according to the U.S.

The push to change consumers' dietary habits, taking a page from changing our use of tobacco, has seen a surge in the special taxation of sugar sweetened beverages [1], like soda. So far these initiatives have seen indifferent success.

When I was learning how to do word problems in elementary school, we were taught to ask ourselves a few questions after arriving at an answer.

So reducing sugar-sweetened beverages and overall sugar consumption should decrease the obesity surge, right? Or at least that's what those who are advocating taxes on sugar-sweetened beverages are telling us.

In Personalizing Nutrition - Automating The Science of Metabolomics and 

Ever wonder why orange juice tastes to bitter after brushing your teeth? It's science.   Ever wonder why brushing your teeth may suppress or open up your appetite? That's science-y.

In Personalizing Nutrition - Automating The Science of Metabolomics I defined a therapeutic diet as a diet personalized to an individu

“The woman who once marched up to the French chef Jean-Louis Paladin and told him a dish didn’t have enough salt can no l