Food & Nutrition

Sure, we all know that it's important to be physically active to help achieve and maintain a healthy body weight and perhaps diminish the risk of heart disease, some cancers and overall mortality. But how much is enough?

Here we go again: From Yahoo: Bacon, soda & too few nuts tied to big portion of US deaths

In a recent documentary, religion scholar Reza Aslan ate a small piece of huma

They're "hooking" up. They've got more access to safe-sex and birth-control information – at their fingertips via their smartphone – than any generation in human history.

Here are the headlines: From UPI: Study links soy consumption to breast cancer survival.

ACSH followers are clear about the problems associated with fake science — from the promotion of supposed obesity "cures" by Dr. Oz to the nonsense of hydrogen-infused water, we've covered a myriad of pseudoscience.

http://cdn.nutrition.org/content/early/2017/02/08/cdn.117.000422

Soda taxes are many things. Obnoxious. Unscientific. An example of government overreach. The one thing they aren't is racist, yet precisely that case was made by Seattle Times reporter Gene Balk1. 

While small in scope, a recent study relating to anorexia nervosa supports one of the primary post-treatment concerns facing patients suffering from the eating disorder: the chances of relapse are high.

Canada recently (finally)