When you’re trying to lose weight, any number of factors can weaken your resolve and get in the way of progress. But in many cases, the scale may refuse to budge, even if you’ve been…
PURE Healthy Diet Sees Advantage by Promoting Whole-Fat…
By counting whole-fat dairy as a protective food, the new PURE Healthy Diet score strengthened the relationship between healthy eating and heart disease in a large study. For individuals with and without cardiovascular disease (CVD),…
Nutrition, Health, and Your Environment
Introduction What we eat is considered an environmental factor that influences health, in positive and negative ways. Healthy diets with an optimal balance of nutrients help people accomplish daily physical activities and mental processes. Within…
Healthy Eating Linked to Lower Risk of Total…
Adhering to healthy eating patterns was associated with lower risk of total and cause-specific mortality, a prospective cohort study with up to 36 years of follow-up showed. Among 75,230 women from the Nurses' Health Study…
USDA scientists create healthy menu with 91% of…
Scientists at the USDA Agricultural Research Service's (ARS) Grand Forks Human Nutrition Research Center led a study that demonstrates it is possible to build a healthy diet with 91 percent of the calories coming from…
Six months on from the “pause” letter
Well, that didn’t happen, obviously. I sat down with MIT professor Max Tegmark, the founder and president of FLI, to take stock of what has happened since. Here are highlights of our conversation. On shifting…