Food & Nutrition

As one year gives way to the next (making reflecting back practically unavoidable), one of the things I'm grateful for is the volume of health information that comes across my desk.

It's common knowledge that as a country, we've been getting fatter for decades. In some states the prevalence of obesity is over 35 percent, as it is in adults over all, as shown in the graphic below.

This week JAMA sought to puncture one component of the supplement bubble, the promised prophylactic benefit of Calcium and Vitamin D supplements in preventing fractures.

Just in time for the holidays come two studies on our canine companions that serve as a reminder and warning.

The ability to provide enough nutritious food for ourselves, rests upon three pillars, sustainable agriculture, providing nutritious meals and reducing food loss and waste.

“You are what you eat” – that phrase often forms the basis for dietary advice. And in some instances, that information can be helpful. In particular, I am thinking about the role of salt and high blood pressure or hypertension.

In full disclosure, I have a weakness for jellyfish because I find them to be so beautifully graceful. Who knew they were natural born killers?

Critics of the United Kingdom's government health plan, the National Health Service, sit on both sides.

Is breakfast really the most important meal of the day, and if you habitually skip it are you dooming yourself to obesity and worse?

Last spring we wrote about contamination of raw milk with the dangerous bacterium Listeria monocytogenes, and this fall about a different co