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.

Nutrition trends come and go, but some myths and half-truths stubbornly persist—often because they’re profitable for those pushing the dodgy advice.
HuffPost just published an interesting article titled "More And More People Suffer From 'Chemopho
A video version of our latest article on Glucose Spike myths. You can find the text version here.
Join Cameron English and Dr. Chuck Dinerstein on Episode 130 of the Science Dispatch podcast as they discuss:
High fiber diets are essential to our body's well-being; studies from Harvard, Mayo, and NIH have shown this.
As a nutritionist, I once feared we might be replaced with ease.
Join Cameron English, Dr. Chuck Dinerstein and Dr. Josh Bloom on Episode 129 of the Science Dispatch podcast as they discuss:
Ultra-processed food, or UPF, has become the wellness world’s favorite villain. Celebrity doctors and health influencers have built whole careers out of blaming it for our ills.
A number of you are now reading a really interesting article by Chuck "Chuckie" Dinerstein, our beloved director of medicine, about how beets might be useful in lowering your blood pressure.