Nutrition News

Food not only nourishes the body but also affects its internal biological clock, which regulates the daily rhythm of many aspects of human behavior and biology.

A nutrient-dense diet may help tamp down stress. And these foods may help boost our moods: pumpkin seeds, anchovies, eggs, salmon, flax seeds, Swiss chard and dark chocolate.

A new bill is once again asking Navajo lawmakers to implement a sales tax on foods containing a high concentration of sugar, salt and saturated fat.

Salazon Chocolates Co./Owner: Pete Truby/Headquarters: Eldersburg, Md./Startup costs: close to $100,000 Revenue: more than $1 million a year Product: organic salted dark chocolate bars The UpTake: For a Baltimore-area chocolate entrepreneur, sales and distribution skills came easily but manufacturing was a new challenge.

A new menu model analysis developed by a team of nutrition experts shows that processed meat and poultry products currently consumed regularly by Americans can fit into a healthy balanced diet, according to comments submitted by the American Meat Institute to the 2015 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee.

U.S. lawmakers expected that a promising budget deal reached after a government shutdown last year would herald a new normal for passing annual spending bills, moving Congress away from the crisis-driven approach and resulting economic jitters of recent years.

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Nutritionists swear by it for its health benefits, and now even the public has caught on to Iowa's very own aronia berry.

Bay Area kids who have found themselves tipping the scales have been referred to a special six-week summer camp to lose weight.

Staff Report The Cherokee County School District's School Nutrition staff, just like teachers and other school-based staff, use the Summer Break as an opportunity for professional development.

Children have lunch choices of a sandwich, salad, milk, an orange, baked apples and fried squash at Myrtle Beach Primary School.

Halifax Co., VA-- It's a disturbing statistic from the CDC. In 2012 more than one third of children and adolescents in the country were overweight or obese.

Eating your vegetables is a given. We all know that eating plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains and low fat protein give us the good nutrition we need to live.

A local teen has earned a seat at the dining table with First Lady Michelle Obama.

Katerina gained her MSc degree in nutrition and food science at the University and now she has embarked on research for a PhD.

Nutrition standards for school lunches have turned into one of the most contentious issues in this year's appropriations debate.

Scientists warned Thursday that a palm tree with an oily fruit might "spell doom" for Africa's great apes, thanks to demand for palm oil, a cheap fat often used as a replacement for trans fats.

Chad's five-year term will begin on Jan. 1, 2015. Before being named vice-president research in 2010, Chad was the associate vice-president of research for five years.

"I'll have a medium," says me, before I realize that medium - in movie theater language - means, "Oh, my gosh that's big."

When a pregnant mother is undernourished, her child is at a greater risk of developing obesity and type 2 diabetes, in part due to so-called 'epigenetic' effects.