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Food really is medicine.
Kurt Hager, PhD, is the lead author on a study that found the health of people with diabetes, hypertension and obesity improved…
This story also ran on Los Angeles Times. It can be republished for free. The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the…
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Michelle D. Holmes"On the road to making a healthy diet accessible to everyone, the Dietary Guidelines will continue to be an…
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Sarah ReinhardtSixty percent of adults the United States are now living with one or more chronic diseases, including cancer…
Sixty percent of adults the United States are now living with one or more chronic diseases, including cancer, cardiovascular…
It's easy to outsource our cooking to professionals, but in so doing, we lose a fundamental skill, control over our nutrition…
Science has shown us over and over again that the more meat we eat, the higher our risk of diabetes, heart disease, and strokes.
23 New York–area hospitals are attempting to redefine hospital food by making it healthier and more exciting to prepare. 20% of…
Bland, institutional food can be bad for patients in many ways.
With the WHO calling a ban on trans fats, navigating healthy and unhealthy fats can be difficult.
Students from Brown University’s medical school take part in the Food + Health course at Johnson
Blessed, so Monty Python tells us, are the cheese makers. They go on to clarify that this particular Messianic assertion in the …
I cannot profess to know why ketogenic diets are the flavor of the week, other than the fact that there always is one of thos,…
Photo: Cristie Guevara/public domain (BY CC0)Last month, Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced a number of proposed…
The national debate on health care is moving into a new, hopefully bipartisan phase. The fundamental underlying challenge is…
Imagine a new study, published, one presumes in Road
In The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T.S. Eliot's protagonist asks, chewing on mortality and the pangs of senescence, if he…
A study released earlier this year reveals that some 45% of all deaths in the U.S. in 2012 were due to “cardiometabolic disease,…
A lead story that appeared in Medpage Today positions the conclusions of a multidisciplinary panel of prominent nutrition…
In The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T.S. Eliot's protagonist asks, chewing on mortality and the pangs of senescence, if he…
The documentary "What the Health" espouses the fairy tale that all major diseases (heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and many…
A recent New York Times column offered us this provocative headline: Why Everything We Know About Salt May Be Wrong. Presumably…
The pattern of provocations, proclamations, and click-bait innuendo related to saturated fat is fairly clear to anyone who…
A new commentary just published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine contends that saturated fat is uninvolved in coronary…
A recent column in the New York Times highlighted two published research papers that found surprising effects of salt…
A recent study attempted to quantify the association of ten dietary factors with deaths from cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
Go NutsIs Americans’ love affair with this food costing them?Whether it’s on a cheeseburger, with morning eggs or part of a…
NEJM 9 Mar 2017 Vol 376Impressive…
Too much bacon, or too few nuts, can influence the risk of death from heart disease and Type 2 diabetes, a study finds. Nearly…
A majority of U.S. deaths are tied to a diet that includes too much salt and too few nuts, says a new study. Here are 10 foods…
–The inevitable weaknesses of observational and diet studies “Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and…
Let's compare what a single, recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association says about diet versus the body of…
NewsGorging on bacon, skimping on nuts? These are among food habits that new research links with deaths from heart disease…
Omega-3s from seafood, fruits, nuts, vegetables, and whole grains are among the 10 dietary factors associated with an estimated…
Tufts researchers find that nearly half of American deaths from major "cardiometabolic" killers -- heart disease, stroke and…
Editor's Audio Summary by Howard Bauchner, MD, Editor in Chief of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, for…