News Feeding America Urges Bold, Collective Action in Face of Increased Food Insecurity. The number of people living in food insecure households in the United States in 2023 incre ...

The research, led by scientists at Stanford Medicine and the University of California, San Francisco, is part of a larger effort to identify low-risk, low-cost ways to treat one of the most common ...

Glucocorticoids (sometimes known as steroids) fight inflammation and are used to treat a wide range of inflammatory and autoimmune conditions, including asthma, rheumatoid arthritis, cancers and other ...

Learn more about the most popular products on store shelves and what the science says about their nutrient content and safety profiles. The USDA estimates that the average American consumes more than ...

Web Exclusive Low Magnesium Levels Increase Disease Risk, Study Shows. A new Australian study has identified why a diet rich in magnesium is so important for our health, reducing ...

Genetics, the central nervous system, and the interplay between various organs as well as social and environmental factors such as food insecurity and air pollution play a role in development of ...

The average age of study participants with stage 1 high blood pressure was 49.6 years; 55% self-identified as men, and 45% self-identified as women. Among this group, 65.8% self-identified as white ...

Social media, podcasts, and the internet can be a mixed bag of nutrition and health information, and one of the latest questionable claims making the rounds is that seed oils cause everything from ...

Due to the overwhelming success of Hannah Holscher’s Lunch presentation during the 2022 Today's Dietitian Spring Symposium the BENEO-Institute is making available this follow-up Q&A with Hannah ...

Ever since vitamin K was discovered in the early 1930s, all the attention has been directed toward its role in coagulation. Although both the K1 (phylloquinone) and K2 (menaquinone) forms of the ...

Do their potentially health-promoting compounds have a place in disease treatment? Mushrooms have been used as medicine for thousands of years, including in the early Greek, Egyptian, Roman, Chinese, ...

Though still in its infancy, the research linking certain fatty acids to improved visual acuity and cognitive performance in babies is strong. The importance of nutrition in relation to infants’ ...