Nutrition News

A heated battle is brewing on Capitol Hill over cuts to the food stamp program, with lawmakers quoting Bible verses at each other and benefits for millions of people hanging in the balance.

By Coshandra DIllard cdillard@tylerpaper.com Nacogdoches residents shined Saturday as many were winners of prizes during Lighten Up East Texas' Lighten Up and Play - an event culminating a nearly six-month regional weight- loss contest.

In this photo taken April 3, 2013, nutrition scholar Prof. Barry Popkin, head of the University of North Carolina Food Research Program, discusses his study, what foods Americans are purchasing in stores and eating, in his office at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Sixty fillet steaks a day and snacks of shepherd's pie: This is what it takes to look after a British and Irish Lion We go behind the scenes at the squad's boot camp to find out what it takes to host the British and Irish Lions squad.

It is 70 years since the Ministry of Food's leaflets taught Britons to eat well on rations and stay 'fit for the fight' during the Second World War.

Overweight and have high cholesterol? You may have to pick one to work on at a time, according to data from the lab of John Thyfault, an associate professor of nutrition and exercise physiology at University of Missouri.

I heard one of my mentors give this great analogy: if you lift weights or strength train with a weak core, it's like firing a cannon from a canoe.

Dow Jones Reprints: This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com A young Houston couple is planning to give away $4 billion-but only to projects that prove ... (more)

May is " Get Fit " month and the Phoenix Healthy Food Examiner is featuring a special guest contributor in this week's column.

Potatoes and other white vegetables are just as important to a healthy diet as their colorful cousins in the produce aisle, according to the authors of a scientific supplement published in the peer-reviewed journal, Advances in Nutrition .

About nine thousand pregnant women in Ghana will die by 2020 if the high anaemia levels among expectant mothers are not brought under control.

A multi-component supplement containing raspberry ketone, caffeine, capsaicin, garlic, ginger and bitter orange extracts may enhance body composition, and reduce hip and waist girth in overweight men and women, says a new study.

The Director of Food and Nutritional Services is an exciting opportunity for an energetic, entrepreneurial manager who is constantly seeking a better way to conduct business.

Securing the critical contribution of wild fish stocks to food and nutrition security in the developing world depends on better governance and management of the fisheries sector.

Whether the food industry likes it or not, when it comes to GMO labeling, the " train appears to have left the station", according to former FDA associate commissioner of foods Dr David Acheson.

Right now, a gallon of gas costs $4 or less. Produce it from algae, and you can expect to pay $18 or more, says the boss of one firm convinced that cutting edge nutraceuticals - not biofuels - is where algae's true potential lies, in the near term at least.

When you think homemade protein shakes you probably think simple, unscientific recipes. Now a whole new bread of homemade protein shakes are popping up in videos on YouTube that take the science of protein shakes to a whole new level.

FDA Targets Inappropriate Nutrition Claims on Food and Beverage Products A common way to make a product stand out is by extolling the nutritional value of the food with claims that it will improve the consumer's health.FDA has issued an avalanche of warning letters in the last year to food manufacturers that made claims for their products that ... (more)

On May 9, Perkiomen Valley High School Students, as a part of Dr. Debra Berardi's nutrition class, took part in teaching preschoolers the importance of nutrition.

PHILADELPHIAChanges in estrogen breakdown, or metabolism, may be one of the mechanisms by which aerobic exercise lowers a woman's breast cancer risk, according to data published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research."Observational studies suggest physical activity lowers breast ... (more)