Food & Nutrition

What to believe?

Talk about mixed messages. Vitamin B9, (aka, folic acid or folate) has been atop the "Bipolar News Nielsens" for the past two weeks. And it's all because of a silly scare about formaldehyde.

The Osher Center for Integrative Medicine, Harvard’s outreach into complementary medicine recently announced a partnership

There's an old saying that "breakfast is the most important meal of the day" and that skipping breakfast can be a cause of obesity.

Researchers have been working for years to find a means of treating peanut allergy with various degrees of success, as we wrote about here.

Supposedly, you “can’t teach an old dog new tricks”. Hard to know if that became a meme based on experience, or based on a lack of interest in learning new tricks.

Plant Based News [1], published an article entitled Impossible Foods CEO speaks Out Over Animal Testin

Many American women (say 50 percent) report craving chocolate around the onset of menstruation. But that doesn't seem to be true for women in other countries.

Whenever I hear the term "clean food" the image that springs to mind is of a raccoon supposedly "washing" its food before consuming it.  Next comes a litany of possible food contaminants, and means of reducing their presence on our consumable

Vitamin B3 is smack in the middle of the news because of a study showing that it may help prevent birth defects and miscarriages (See Julianna LeMieux's companion piece "