Nutrition News

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.

Editor's note: The following information is part of a countdown recap from the inaugural Top 100 Movers and Shakers publication.

Students from Doherty Elementary School in West Bloomfield got a taste of kale chips and learned about nutrition and sustainable living at Henry Ford West Bloomfield Hospital the week of May 6. Principal Molly Funk said the hospital contacted the school about participating in the new program, in which every class, kindergarten through 5th grade, ... (more)

Kroger's Atlanta Division will donate a total of $168,300 in grants to 79 Atlanta city, metro-Atlanta and surrounding area schools as part of its 2012-2013 "Earning Plus Learning" program.

Two years ago, the USDA issued a nutrition guideline called MyPlate , which I wrote about here with cautious optimism.

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.

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