After rising for decades, calorie consumption has declined in recent years as public attitudes have shifted.

Almond Breeze hardly contains any almonds, a class action lawsuit claims.

The supermarket aisle has become a confusing place. It used to be full of recognisable items like cheese and butter; now you find yourself bamboozled by all manner of odd… Read more

Most supplements do not prevent chronic disease or death, their use is not justified and they should be avoided

It's sometimes said that eating a lot of of bananas at once could be dangerous - it has even been suggest that eating more than six in one sitting could kill you. Can this be true?

Students with less than 20 minutes to eat school lunches consume significantly less of their entrées, milk, and vegetables than those who aren’t as rushed, according to a new study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

A new study finds that people today who eat and exercise the same amount as people 30 years ago are still fatter.

This is another simple recipe that can yield an entire weeks worth of keto friendly breakfasts.  Its...

Recent research suggests chillies may make our lives longer, and a range of studies suggest they are good for us - but a heated debate continues.

There are a few topics that just never get old for me. “Pay for performance”. “overtesting”. “medical myths”. And, of course, my never-ending war with the milk industrial complex.

Westernised diets blamed as figures predict failure to meet 2025 target of no increase in obesity or diabetes beyond 2010 levels

How much water should you drink every day? Not as much as you've been told. This summer, like many summers before it, has seen a rash of articles warning us not only that is dehydration is dangerous, but that it is also ubiquitous. Real dehydration, when your body has lost a significant amount of water because of illness, excessive exercise or sweating, or an inability to drink, is a serious issue. But people with clinical dehydration almost always have symptoms of some sort.

More than 23,000 Americans end up in emergency rooms each year after taking dietary supplements, an analysis shows. Most cases are linked to weight-loss products or energy-boosting supplements.

Exo is a Brooklyn-based startup that is trying to change the way we think about eating bugs. And the company is starting with cricket protein bars. Cofounders Greg Sewitz and Gabi Lewis started experimenting with cricket-based food when they were seniors at Brown University, after reading a United Nations report that said eating insects could help combat world hunger.

Did Big Ag’s beef-loving cowboys just lasso the 2015 Dietary Guidelines? It sure does look that way. By Jeff Turrentine.

As debate rages about whether to introduce a sugar tax, this is the story of how Mexico defied its own powerful fizzy drinks industry to impose a tax on soda

BY GAIL BARNES SUSTAINABILITY SPECIALIST   On Monday this week the internet and social media erupted because of a monograph that had been published by the WHO’s International Agency for Research

We're a nation of legal drug-takers, with 59 percent of adults using at least one prescription drug. That's up from 50 percent 10 years ago. Increased rates of obesity may be the cause.

In Mexico, over 70 percent of citizens are overweight or obese and 14 percent of Mexican adults now suffer from diabetes, though half of those affected aren't even aware they have the disease. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on the struggle to bring the disease under control.

Cereal has twice the protein of regular but twice the serving size, 17x the sugar.

After our episode on the health benefits of coffee, the number one request I received was to look into the potential benefits – or harms – of tea.

Just a few weeks ago, a study was published in the Journal of Nutrition that many reports in the news media said proved that honey was no better than sucrose as a sweetener, and that high-fructose corn syrup was no worse. But did it? This study, and what it says about nutrition research in general, are the topics of this week's Healthcare Triage.

The idea may be hard to swallow, but crickets and mealworms will likely be part of our sustainable food future. By Emily Matchar.

Americans eat three times the world average of beef each year. However, with each pound requiring more than 50 gallons of water, producers in drought-stricken California are looking to find other ways to get protein into our diets. Dr. James Hamblin, a senior editor at The Atlantic Magazine, reports.

When Anne Biklé and David Montgomery fed soil with organic matter, they were astonished by the results. When Biklé was diagnosed with cancer, they had an idea…By Lucy Rock.

With the explosion of fat-free processed food in the '80s and '90s, why did consumers tend to get bigger? Turns out, "fat-free" food had a dirty little secret.

You may think twice about your diet when you follow the metabolic fate of your food. By David R. Montgomery and Anne Biklé.

You guys love the microbiome. You’re not alone. The sales of products containing yeasts and bacteria that will colonize your gut and make you stronger and better are legion. I recently met a researcher who did actual microbiome work, and he didn’t seem nearly as convinced as the public. But do probiotics work? That’s the topic of this week’s Healthcare Triage.

Dietary science is complicated-- one day something is good for you and the next it's not. Learn what we DO know about fat chemistry in this episode of SciShow.

Ever wonder why almost everything you buy has a nutrition label, but alcoholic beverages don't? It's all thanks to some crazy regulations and powerful industry lobbyists.

That's right, you can eat banana peels. And not only are they edible — they're also good for you. If you live in the US, you're probably used to tossing banana peels in the trash. But people in other countries, including India, have been taking advantage of their nutritional benefits for decades. While a banana's flesh is soft and sweet, the skin is thick, fibrous, and slightly bitter. To eat the peel, you can either blend it into smoothies or fry...

The new 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans were finally released today (in 2016). They are very similar to the earlier 2010 guidelines, but there are two major improvements: A new limit on added sugar, at 10% of energy Any warning against dietary cholesterol is removed – eat all the cholesterol you want

A study finds that nearly all Americans — regardless of age, race or gender — consume more sodium than recommended. The CDC says food companies need to work harder to cut it in their products.

Modern varieties of vegetables, the ones you see for sale in the produce section of the supermarket, are generally sweeter, starchier, and less fibrous than their wild ancestors. They are also far less nutritious: wild dandelion leaves, for example, have eight times more antioxidants than spinach and forty times more than iceberg lettuce. It turns out that many common cooking habits are actually making vegetables less nutritious.

If you're a secret breakfast begrudger, this is for you.