Food & Nutrition

The folks over at the Environmental Working Group and NRDC must be greeting a new environmental study with mixed emotions. 

Asking hard questions is one of the true delights of being a science journalist. People's assumptions, understanding of the facts, and inherent biases should be subjected to scrutiny.

You can go organic, or "all natural" or non-GMO or even vegan, but what you can't do this holiday season, is avoid all the chemicals in your holiday dinner!

While you're out food shopping in the final days leading up to Thanksgiving, pulling together all the traditional dishes associated with the big meal, just make sure to take one quarter out of your pocket and leave it at home, since you won't need

We really *have* lost our minds. There is no longer any doubt. 

A year ago, our president Hank Campbell wrote a commentary when Mark Bittman vacated his post at The New York

I've written before about the problems with changing people's behavior when it comes to making food selections with respect to

As a greater number of people enter the middle class around the globe, many will turn away from plant-based diets in favor of meat-based diets.

It's probably the biggest issue in the nutrition world — no, not the Fat vs. Carbs dispute — but how to motivate people to make healthy food choices.

The good news is that Americans have realized what public health experts have been sayng for years — obesity is a huge problem leading to a myriad of negative health outcomes.