Food & Nutrition

There’s a new scary poison in town. It comes wrapped in a thin, shiny can, and tastes like someone mixed cough syrup and Coke and then poured it over a few kilos of sugar. I’m talking, of course, about energy drinks.

Scientific research, folks in white lab coats, gleaming laboratories, occasional Eureka moments interspersed with hours of work – still sounds interesting if not glamorous. But sometimes, science requires more dedication, more sacrifice.

Following a vegan diet has become increasingly widespread in affluent countries — Britain saw its popularity rise quickly in 2017, for example.

The business of sleep continues to break new ground. To what end, that's hard to say.

Eggs have been a dietary bugaboo for decades because of the cholesterol within their yolks.

“Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage, blow!” --Shakespeare's King Lear

Food deserts are communities without a supermarket, found primarily in low-income neighborhoods. We have evidence from a variety of studies that the diet of folks living in these areas is less than nutritious, at least based on USDA criteria.

Three days before human hoards rushed into the Atlantic from a Brooklyn shore on New Year's Day, three sharks up north, in the same ocean off Cape Cod, wound up doing something that doesn't usually happen. That would be ...

After 13 weeks of maternity leave — lots of joy and little sleep — I am back at work. In true New Years fashion, I — like many others — am thinking of making some resolutions for the year ahead. 

Advertising cigarettes and other tobacco products on TV and radio hasn’t been allowed since 1971.