Nutrition News

Hannah Robertson, 9, spoke at a McDonald's annual shareholders meeting on May 23, 2013.

The prestigious Institute of Medicine is recommending that schools provide opportunities for at least 60 minutes of physical activity each day for students and that PE become a core subject.

While some fast-food chains are required to provide calorie and other nutritional information to help customers make informed choices, kids who eat fast food at least twice a week are 50 percent less likely to use this information than kids who eat fast food less often, according to a new U.S. study.

New Delhi, May 23 : Easy-to-prepare summer salads can help you feel cool in the soaring temperatures, suggest chefs, who recommend nutritious and light preparations to beat the heat.

This is the third in a series about Vacaville Unified classified employees, who this week are celebrating Class-ified School Employee Week.

Senator Claire McCaskill joined co-hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski on MSNBC's weekday morning talk show Morning Joe to talk about diet and exercise.

More than half of Americans say they'd rather lose $1,000 than gain 20 pounds, a new survey shows.

Fresh, locally-sourced fruit, vegetables and legumes must replace foods high in fat and sugar in the EU's fund for Most Deprived, says the European Public Health Alliance .

There's nothing tricky or difficult about making chocolate frosting. Dump a few ingredients into a bowl, beat for a few minutes, then taste, tweak and frost.

The Senate this week rejected farm-bill amendments to cancel food-stamp spending reductions, make greater spending cuts and turn the program into grants for states to administer.

Jelly Belly Candy Co. announced at the National Confectioners Association show in Chicago this week that it will roll out voluntary front-of-package nutrition labeling on some of its most popular pre-packaged products.

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Keas announced at Healthbeat today two new content partnerships with My Healthy Dish and Noshtopia that will help employees make wiser nutritional choices and save employers money on health care costs.

It's clear that eating right goes hand in hand with exercising, but in our world full of information-and misinformation-it can sometimes prove challenging to separate what's true and what's a big fat lie when it comes to how certain nutritional practices affect your fitness.

At a time when even school cafeterias serve adobo and sushi, it's surprising that so many restaurants still resort to chicken fingers and macaroni and cheese for their youngest clientele.

It's the leading cause of cancer deaths in both men and women, higher than colon, breast, and prostate cancer.

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.