Food & Nutrition

For the last 15 years, I have taught an introductory nutrition course at a local junior college.

Antioxidants are chemical compounds that can be a vitamin, mineral, enzyme, or one of thousands of other naturally occurring plant chemicals and many that are naturally produced by our bodies.

Many of these headlines attribute these recommendations to Dr. Fauci. The myth of vitamin C supplements assisting in immunity is nothing new, and if Dr.

I rarely see anyone looking at food labels. We make our food choices based on taste, price, and our sense of what might be good or bad for us.

We all know that when it comes to weight loss, dropping the pounds is the easy part. It’s keeping weight off that's hard.

It's difficult to out-Oz Dr. Oz, America's Quack, who has raked in giant piles of money by promoting pseudoscience on his TV show. But at least one person comes perilously close: Dr. Mark Hyman.

The Good Bean

There are few food fad movements that we support at ACSH. Organic food, for instance, is a total scam. So are most miracle diets and nutritional supplements. If you eat a relatively well-balanced diet, you're most likely going to be fine.

Rummage around the fringes of nutrition “science” for a while and you’ll soon bump into a strongly held belief that the vegetable oils most of us consider a healthier option—like canola, soy, corn, safflower, peanut and soy oils—will actually lead

As it turns out, for grocers it has diversified their revenue stream but towards a “distribution channel” with a low or in many cases non-existent profitability.