Food & Nutrition

The alterations in our menus in reporting calorie intake come from a new study reported in JAMA Network Open.

Activist groups have attacked all sorts of alleged villains for undermining public health—Big Ag and Big Pharma being the two most common punching bags.

A growing chorus of political commentators and social scientists claims that the West is using genetically engineered crops to “re-colonize” developing countries.

Last week I highlighted four disturbing trends in science journalism that are destroying the public's trust in mainstream academic and publi

“Hall and his colleagues did their best to ensure that the only significant difference between the two groups was in how much processed food they consumed.

Today, many scientific discussions are shot through with social justice rhetoric, and the debate over food security in the developing world is no ex

Christmas is around the corner, and that means a bunch of bad gifts are heading your way. Some will be merely bad, like a calendar with a different cat hairball for every month.

Beginning in January, we'll see many more products in grocery stores carrying the USDA's 'bioengineered' food label.

The study by the RAND corporation looked at soda consumption and health records from 2011 to 2016 in Mexico, probably the first place where a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) was instituted.