Nutrition News

When it comes to feeding their dogs, not everyone is opening up a can of wet food or reaching for a scoop of kibble and plunking it into a bowl.

Proving that public school lunch menus are an exercise in not being able to please all the people all the time, an effort to improve nutrition over the past school year has been controversial.

A new study published in PNAS argues that for fisheries policies to be effective they must take in to account not just fish stock conservation and environmental issues, but also research data on the patterns and dynamics of fish trade, markets and user consumption.

The US Food and Drug Administration has accepted Nutrition 21's inositol-stabilized arginine silicate as a New Dietary Ingredient .

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., is learning to eat lean and mean this week. The freshman lawmaker is taking the 'SNAP' challenge, living off the equivalent of what Connecticut families receive in food stamps.

We may not have the weather to match, but May is International Mediterranean Diet Month and a great opportunity to put some heart-healthy 'sunshine' into your diet.

Last year, my friends Muriel Angot and Andrew Lessman wrote a book on organic soups and gave it to me.

Emergen-C . What a catchy name for a popular product that you can find on the shelves at your local health store, pharmacy or even at the supermarket.

Recent research results about the effectiveness of omega 3 fatty acids in the prevention of secondary heart attacks have been generalized to cast doubt on the value of the ingredients' overall effectiveness in cardiovascular health.

The research findings, published in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, hold that some nutrients increase during the canning process.

Nutritional yeast is a heat-deactivated yeast that is typically sourced from beet molasses and sugarcane.

Many health professionals cite breast milk as providing the best nutrition to newborns.

The creation of the first pan-European network of excellence for clinical trials in nutrition and health products will mean greater expertise in trial design and options for large scale multi-centre trials, say the people behind the CRENnet partnership.

What is Vitamin Fortification? Vitamin, mineral, and essential nutrients are added to replace those lost in food manufacture or storage; to raise the level to that of similar foods.

Ingles dietitian Leah McGrath is an advocate for healthy eating, heard on News Radio 570 WWNC every Saturday on 'Ingles Information Aisle' and busy on every social media platform.

People tend to choose larger portions of foods when they are marketed as 'healthy', suggests new research led by a team from the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland.

The U.N. has new weapons to fight hunger, boost nutrition and reduce pollution, and they might be crawling or flying near you right now: edible insects.

David Ross, managing director of Fonterra Brands in Malaysia, says the milk giant's success comes from identifying and meeting nutritional needs.

Until now, the only way to find out what people in the United States eat and how many calories they consume has been government data, which can lag behind the rapidly expanding and changing food marketplace.

While the kids learn new skills and play games at Muskegon Community College's Stevenson Center, parents join the WIC nutrition staff in a kitchen nearby to learn new snack ideas and healthier ways to prepare their childrena s favorite foods.