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Older adults reveal what makes or breaks a shift to plant-based protein

Older Dutch adults identified health and taste as the key tipping points for shifting toward protein-rich plant-based diets. Knowledge, social context, and practical tools shaped adoption, while skepticism and habits limited change.

28 Aug 2025

Study reveals most plant-based milks don’t meet toddlers’ nutrient needs

Replacing cow’s milk with most plant-based drinks cuts key nutrients in young children’s diets unless products are fortified. Specially formulated soy drinks can maintain or even boost intakes of iron and iodine.

31 Mar 2025

In Trump’s team, supplement fans find kindred spirits in search of better health

President Donald Trump's health officials want you to take your vitamins.

13 Mar 2025

Do organic foods really offer better health benefits?

Researchers compare the health impacts of consuming organic foods to conventional alternatives.

16 Sep 2024

URI study explores consumer perceptions and nutrition of processed foods

Ultra-processed foods make up more than half the food average Americans eat. Including frozen and prepared meals, most packaged snacks, desserts and carbonated soft drinks - but also including more innocuous foods - they are often considered the bane of healthy eating, containing little to no nutrition to fuel healthy bodies.

13 Feb 2024

Nutritional epigenetics education reduces ultra-processed food intake in parents of children with autism and ADHD

In a recent publication released by PubMed, American scientists led by Dr. Dufault at the Food Ingredient and Health Research Institute, reported the results of a clinical trial in which parents who received nutritional epigenetics education significantly reduced their consumption of ultra-processed foods while increasing their intake of whole and/or organic foods.

9 Feb 2024

Study links organic Mediterranean diet to improved male fertility

Researchers in Italy have found that a low-carbohydrate organic Mediterranean diet significantly enhances male fertility by increasing testosterone levels and reducing sperm DNA fragmentation, offering new dietary guidelines for improving male reproductive health.

10 Dec 2023

Fermented foods may have fueled human brain growth, new evolutionary theory proposes

Review in Communications Biology suggests that the external fermentation of foods may have played a key role in the expansion of the hominid brain. The "external fermentation hypothesis" posits that early hominins' practice of fermenting foods externally contributed to brain growth and gut reduction, offering a novel perspective on human evolution and dietary practices.

26 Nov 2023

New study reveals the impact of protein sources on health, environment, and economy

The sustainability of various diets based on protein sources.

23 Oct 2023

Insights from a global study: The association between dietary patterns, cardiovascular diseases, and deaths

Researchers develop a healthy diet score linked to health outcomes with global applicability using the Prospective Urban Rural Epidemiology study data.

20 Jul 2023

Is your diet related to your personality?

Food values developed within a food context are associated with personality traits, and a study investigated the associations between food values and the Big Five personality traits.

14 May 2023

Activating well-being goals in grocery stores: innovative strategies for encouraging healthy food purchases

Researchers discussed the concept of priming shoppers' well-being goals in grocery stores.

1 May 2023

Higher glyphosate levels in pregnant women associated with lower birth weight in babies

Indiana University School of Medicine researchers are learning more about the effects of herbicide exposure during pregnancy, finding glyphosate in 99 percent of the pregnant women they observed in the Midwest.

17 Oct 2022

Best-science guidance lost battle early during COVID-19 pandemic

Researchers used a mathematical model to depict how the general public drifted away from best-science guidance early during the COVID-19 pandemic.

3 Oct 2022

Costly Chemicals; The Health and Economic Impact of 'Forever Chemicals'

With PFAS being commonly found in households worldwide, what are the health and economic impacts of these forever chemicals? In this interview, we speak to Dr. Linda Kahn to find out more!

15 Aug 2022

For medically vulnerable families, inflation’s squeeze is inescapable

Deborah Lewis rose from bed before dawn and signed in to her phone so she could begin delivering fast food, coffee, and groceries to residents in this western patch of the Mojave Desert where test pilot Chuck Yeager broke the sound barrier generations ago.

15 Aug 2022

Addressing parents' hesitancy to vaccinate their children against COVID

Researchers examine notable risk factors related to vaccine hesitancy among parents.

23 Jun 2022

Mediterranean diet may lead to consumption of too many environmental contaminants

A Mediterranean diet can provide many health benefits, but you may risk consuming too many environmental contaminants. Organically produced food can be the solution, a new study shows.

2 Nov 2021

Organic food intake linked with better fluid intelligence and working memory in children

A study analyzing the association between a wide variety of prenatal and childhood exposures and neuropsychological development in school-age children has found that organic food intake is associated with better scores on tests of fluid intelligence (ability to solve novel reasoning problems) and working memory (ability of the brain to retain new information while it is needed in the short term).

30 Jun 2021

Food waste could be used to create sustainable feed alternatives for fish

Human food scraps could be used to create high-quality food for farmed fish, leading to a more sustainable global fish economy, according to a team of researchers at The University of Western Australia.

1 Apr 2021