The familiar “five-a-day” campaign — designed to encourage people to eat five fruits and vegetables daily — dates back to the late 1980s. Nearly four decades later, [...]
Most U.S. adults consider their diet to be generally healthy and report paying close attention to nutritional information on food labels, especially sugar and calories. [...]
Many consumers who rate their diet poorly acknowledge the need for change. However, only 1 in 4 consumers who say their diet needs improvement have made a health-related [...]
1 in 2 older adults are at risk for malnutrition. While our physiology is changing, so are the body’s nutritional needs; changing tastes, comorbidities, and financial [...]
Food marketing is like magic. It can turn processed cereals into fonts of fiber, sugary drinks into fruit, and plastic bottles of water into hydration products. Here are 9 [...]
A National Institutes of Health (NIH)-sponsored clinical trial testing whether maternal consumption of peanuts and eggs during pregnancy and breastfeeding prevents babies [...]
Chia seeds, legumes and Greek yogurt are taking over TikTok as part of a new trend called “fibermaxxing.” Gaining traction earlier this summer, the [...]
Summer is the perfect time to lighten up your meals — and give your heart a healthy boost while you’re at it. “The best meals for your heart tend to be colorful, [...]
Your heart pumps over 2,000 gallons of blood per day, delivering oxygen and nutrients to every cell and organ in your body, picking up waste along the way and sending it to [...]