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Most people assume that eating freely, indulgently, and joyfully is a direct path to weight gain. But here's the thing - they ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is promoting food as medicine, but experts say he's overstating what diet can do for serious illness.

Chinese restaurant menus are a wonderland of options, colorful sauces, sizzling woks, and dishes that smell like they were pulled straight from a street market in Chengdu. But behind some of the most ...

Epigenetic programming from prolonged undernutrition and terror can persist 3–4 generations, plausibly contributing to elevated cardiometabolic and mental health burdens documented among Irish cohorts ...

Public health programs in Austin deliver meals, stock food pantries and support new moms - helping patients recover, manage chronic illness and avoid hospital readmissions.

Nearly 40% of nonorganic fruits and vegetables grown in California contain traces of pesticides that are also PFAS, or "forever chemicals," according to a new investigation.

Nearly 40% of California-grown nonorganic produce has residues from PFAS pesticides — potentially toxic “forever chemicals” ...

For restaurants and food companies, the increasing adoption of GLP-1 drugs present both an opportunity and a threat to their ...

In this edition, contributing writer Allyson Richter explores food systems, nutrition, and health. The food systems, nutrition, and health (FSNH) major is a Bachelor of Arts degree at UW delving into ...

These apps, some of which use AI and computer vision, were helpful for meeting my caloric and nutrition intake goals. But ...

A research team led by Professor Zhou Weibiao from the Department of Food Science and Technology at the NUS Faculty of Science has shown that compounds extracted from red dragon fruit peel can be ...