Nutrition News

United States Department of Agriculture and New Jersey Department of Agriculture Food and Nutrition officials presented Bartle Elementary School in Highland Park and Campbell Elementary School in Metuchen with Healthier US School Challenge Awards last week, recognizing the schools for promoting good nutrition and physical activity.

Sugar-sweetened and sugar-free beverages produce similar satiety in children, says a new study that challenges the oft-quoted hypothesis that artificially sweetened drinks make people crave sweeter foods or serve as an appetite stimulant.

Allied Bakeries, the UK bread arm of Associated British Foods , is to introduce traffic light nutrition labels on its Kingsmill products.

It's no secret that obesity and chronic diseases such as heart disease, hypertension and certain types of cancer are directly linked to poor diet and nutrition.

The 14 senators and 73 representatives were awarded 100 percent scores based on their voting record on food-related policy issues such as global food aid, food stamps, farm subsidy reform, safety standards, the use of antibiotics and food labeling.

Eating better isn't a science or an art, it's just about making small tweaks to your lifestyle, so the changes stick.

If you were to describe The Perfect Food, it might go something like this: healthful, delicious, bigger than a morsel and filling enough to fight hunger for hours.

People should lose their sweet tooth if they want the best chance of keeping a full set of molars, say scientists.

A study by the University of Georgia shows that fresh vegetables may not always be the best choice, at least not in terms of delivering the vitamins and minerals that families expect from their veggies.

If you know you are going to a party in the evening, experts advise eating a healthy breakfast and lunch.

Be Fit Nutrition has raised hundreds of dollars for the Domestic Violence Resource Center of South County during its month-long "Shake It Up For a Cause" fundraiser to support Domestic Violence Awareness Month.

The movies listed in this graphic were analyzed in this study. Photo Credit: University of North Carolina Health Care.

Q: I hear that incorporating flax into my eating plan is healthful. I see flaxseed oil, ground flaxseeds and whole flaxseeds available.

A component found in grape seed extract could be effective in killing prostate cancer cells, according to a study in the Nutrition and Cancer journal.

Post Holdings Inc said it will buy private label peanut butter maker Golden Boy Foods Ltd and protein bar maker Dymatize Enterprises LLC for about $680 million to build up its nutritional and private-label foods.

Illinois Representative Rodney Davis is speaking up about a problem he sees in the school lunch program.

Women's fitness has come a long way since skinny defined the ideal body and a muscled arm was cause for alarm.

What could be better than a week of featured recipes that use five ingredients and let your slow-cooker do the work? Considering the demands of life with teenage boys and a tri-state family business, this week made Mama happy.

Do more introverts prefer a head of cabbage, a peeled cucumber, a small zucchini, and a cup or two of arugula pureed in coconut water and two peeled oranges as a healthy, sweet-tasting beverage? Or perhaps frozen into a sherbet as a frozen dessert instead of ice cream? And would more extroverts prefer food that's more popular but less healthy, such ... (more)

Scientists believe the seed proteins could be used in large and small water treatment plants in both industrialised and developing countries Proteins extracted from Moringa oleifera seeds can be used to sift out impurities and bind them together in clusters called flocs, research has shown.