For years, we've been told milk is essential. It's not.

Now is not a great time to be in the sugar business. On the health front, Philadelphia is joining the list of cities that want to tax people on sugar-sweetened drinks, and the Food and Drug Administration just approved a new nutrition label that would place more emphasis on calories and added sugars. Meanwhile, sugar has become a volatile commodity: in the past year, prices have tanked over a dozen times before shooting up over 30 percent this month compared to a year ago.

The Regimen Sanitatus Salernum was the Middle Ages' most famous health manual. How does it hold up?

Food tastes better than Soylent. On that, there is universal agreement. Bland in flavor but audacious in concept, everything else about the beige food replacement is fiercely contested. Foodies decry the decline of experiential eating, cultural critics bemoan the loss of communal mealtimes, and others warn of techno-hubris. There have also been questions about Soylent’s nutritional content, and yet, the company’s proprietary mix is almost certainly an improvement on the average North American diet.

There's a disconnect between what we're told to eat and what crops the U.S. subsidizes. Many critics blame farm policy for promoting bad eating habits. The reality is a lot more complicated.

Breakfast in America is pretty sweet—literally it contains a bunch of sugar.

People like to say all kinds of things about protein – like, you need to eat lots of it to build muscle and lose weight. The truth is, the science of protein and how your body uses it is much more complicated than that.

Carbs are pinned to be the villains in many diets, but those poor guys are just misunderstood.

During the Depression, cheap, nutritious and filling food was prioritized — often at the expense of taste. Jane Ziegelman and Andy Coe, authors of A Square Meal, discuss food trends of the time.

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It's nothing but a marketing ploy.

It's the news carb devotees have been waiting for; the revelation that the unrefined variety of carbohydrates including white rice and even pasta won't make you gain weight, say experts.

Well then, cheers!

A Mediterranean diet could be better than statins at reducing the risk of an early death for millions of Britons, research suggests.

Children ages 2 to 18 should eat or drink less than six teaspoons of added sugars daily (equivalent to about 100 calories or 25 grams), according to new recommendations from the American Heart Association (AHA) published this week in the journal Circulation.

A recent study revealed the sugar industry's efforts 50 years ago to shape medical opinion on how sugar affects health. But today, scores of companies continue to fund food and nutrition studies.

Should you be eating organic food?

Nutritionally, orange juice isn't much better for you than a glass of soda or any other sweetened beverage.

Several U.S. cities have sugary drink taxes on the ballot. As efforts to reduce soda consumption gain traction around the world, critics say the industry is using the tobacco playbook to fight back.