Food & Nutrition

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

There are many reasons not to take dietary supplements, just take a look at some of the stuff we've written in the past.  But to jog your memory, here are five reasons not to start taking dietary supplements, or multivitamins. 

OK, so you're not really going to hook up an intravenous (IV) line to an orange to get your infusion of vitamin C — but the picture is worth a thousand words for sure.

Imagine going to the doctor's office. Noticeably absent are any modern tools -- laptops, DNA tests, X-ray scanners. He likes to do things the old-fashioned way. Medicine was better 100 years ago.