This month, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced three major initiatives for the regulation of dietary supplements. The...

In another step toward making the human obsolete, researchers from Netherlands have developed an artificial throat. The latest weapon in...

At a U.S. Senate hearing, held a decade after the passage of DSHEA, a majority of the witnesses testified that the act needs major...

Calorie counting may not be the only reason some people read ingredient labels on the foods they buy. More and more Americans are...

A recent study in Archives of Internal Medicine may be good news for anyone who has ever had that queasy feeling the morning after...

From the second century until well into the 19th century, wealthy European women faithfully, and sometimes fatally, used a...

A study, presented at the 20th annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology, found a diet containing...

Last month the European Parliament voted for strict regulation of the sale of high dose vitamin supplements. In recent years, consumption...

Recent diet programs have turned to high protein, low carbohydrate-based foods to assist in the goal of weight loss.  However, a new...

A recent trend in weight loss diets has been a reduction of daily carbohydrate intake, concurrent with a subsequent increase in fat and...

Most Americans feel that all bacteria are unhealthy.  However, eating ‘good bacteria’ (non-pathogenic microorganisms), known as...

An interesting Letter to the Editor recently appeared in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, suggesting that low carb-dieters lose weight and show...

Conventional wisdom suggests that a selection of a variety of foods, as indicated by the USDA Food Guide Pyramid, is the best method to...

Trans fat is an unsaturated fatty acid with a molecular structure containing one or more isolated double bonds in a trans configuration.

A recent, major investigation report published in Science found that farmed salmon had 10 times higher levels of toxic contaminants, such...

Americans consume approximately 24 pounds of candy per year, a good portion of which is consumed in celebration of Valentine’s Day. This...

Some people are so sensitive to bitter-tasting foods that their impulse is to spit them out. Yale researcher Dr. Bartoshuk has devised a...

The recent change in legislation makes health claims available to savvy marketers of functional food ingredients provided these claims...

The FDA issued a preliminary summary of a risk analysis, which concluded that food from cloned animals or their offspring is as safe as...

Curcumin, the bright yellow active ingredient in turmeric which gives curry a yellow color, has been reported (Chem. Biol. 10, 2003 695)...