Nutrition News

Proving that public school lunch menus are an exercise in not being able to please all the people all the time, an effort to improve nutrition over the past school year has been controversial.

"The students who inherited genetic risk factors from both parents were already 15½ pounds heavier and 2 inches bigger around the waist than those who hadn't. They also had slightly higher fasting glucose levels," said Margarita Teran-Garcia, a U of I professor of food science and human nutrition.

The post-industrial lifestyle has many disadvantageous effects on our health. One of the factors is modern nutrition , which has been associated with epidemic burdens, such as obesity and cardiovascular diseases.

I still want to learn ... A. how to make more Thai and Indian food at home. I can't wait to ... A. I'm a foodie, so eat dinner tonight.

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LSU AgCenter Extension Service nutrition agent Karen Marie will be the featured speaker June 1 at the Covington Farmers Market .

'Various nutrition-related activities will be carried out as part of the initiative to reinforce the message of leading a healthy lifestyle to prevent diet-related chronic diseases,' says Dr Tee.

Are there certain foods and supplements that benefit the body after an accident? If so, a list would be most appreciated.

The potential of cocoa to beneficially impact 'good' cholesterol levels may be linked to the theobromine content and not the flavonoids, says a new study from Unilever Research & Development Vlaardingen.

Morgan Barnett, 7, drinks from containers of 1 percent milk and chocolate milk during lunch at a school in St.

Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., is learning to eat lean and mean this week. The freshman lawmaker is taking the 'SNAP' challenge, living off the equivalent of what Connecticut families receive in food stamps.

Osteoporosis is a chronic medical condition that exists when the body either loses bone faster than it can be made or doesn't make it as fast as it's being lost.

New research suggests chronic smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, and increasing age are all associated with increased oxidative damage to brain tissue.

Last year, my friends Muriel Angot and Andrew Lessman wrote a book on organic soups and gave it to me.

The research findings, published in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, hold that some nutrients increase during the canning process.

Nutrition training of health workers can help to reduce child undernutrition. Specifically, trained health workers might contribute to this end through frequent nutrition counseling of caregivers.

Many health professionals cite breast milk as providing the best nutrition to newborns.

A new study published in the Journal of Nutrition explains a technique that could help researchers get a good measurement of sugary beverage consumption - by analyzing a piece of hair or a blood sample.

People tend to choose larger portions of foods when they are marketed as 'healthy', suggests new research led by a team from the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland.

The U.N. has new weapons to fight hunger, boost nutrition and reduce pollution, and they might be crawling or flying near you right now: edible insects.