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The FDA has delayed labeling of our foods “added sugar” content until 2020, a new paper in Circulation tallies the costs and benefits of the policy in general.

Type 2 diabetes is a growing problem, a complicated interaction of genetics, the gut microbiome, diet, and lifestyle.

Sometimes a study leaves you gobstruck – and not in a good way. An article in Circulation: Heart Failure looks at how dietary protein intake impacts the risk of heart failure.

A recent study shed light on something we've known for some time, but haven't quite lived by: Eating slowly could curb weight gain. Here's why this makes sense. 

What’s the best way to eat if you want to lose weight? By this I don’t mean any particular diet or fad.

Tom Brady is one of the best (or the best) quarterbacks to ever play the game. On top of that, he is rich and hot and married to Gisele Bündchen, who is richer and hotter. 

Soda taxes are many things. Obnoxious. Unscientific. An example of government overreach. The one thing they aren't is racist, yet precisely that case was made by Seattle Times reporter Gene Balk1. 

Food and nutrition companies always capitalize on whatever fad diets are currently in fashion to shamelessly promote their products. Science is of secondary concern, if it's a concern at all.

As a greater number of people enter the middle class around the globe, many will turn away from plant-based diets in favor of meat-based diets.

Busybodies in the American public, never content to leave other people alone, always seem to need a common enemy to rally against. For years, it was McDonald's. Then it was Monsanto and Big Pharma. Now, it's Big Soda.