Study Helps Explain Why Changing Your Diet is Hard Written by Freda Kreier, Yale School of Medicine Learning new eating habits isn’t simple. Our pre-existing feelings around food—whether it’s a distaste for olives or a love of pastries—could make it harder to learn new eating habits, according to...
Food Processing Influences Metabolism and Brain Activity In healthy adults, meals matched for calories and nutrients, but otherwise prepared differently, led to unexpectedly different metabolic responses and activity in the brain’s reward system. Written by Leigh Anne Kelley, Virginia Tech Most...
Sunlight and Precise Nutrient Management, Keys to Success in Urban Agriculture From Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) Factors such as sunlight and stage-specific nutrient application determine crop success in urban agriculture, far beyond fixed recipes or miracle solutions. This is...
National Watermelon Promotion Board Launches Watermelon Performance Hub for Everyday Athletes New resource developed with board-certified sports dietitian Umo Callins brings practical performance nutrition guidance, recipes and tools to watermelon.org From National Watermelon Promotion Board...
Dr. Marion Nestle, longtime NYU professor of nutrition, food studies, and public health, with additional faculty roles at UC San Francisco and Cornell, is best known for analyzing the intersections of food, politics, and health, often exposing how government policy, corporate lobbying, and food...
As probiotic use surges, microbiome-supportive food consumption stagnates The proportion of young people taking probiotic supplements rose 786% in 14 years Written by Sam Page, Michigan Medicine New research finds that probiotic supplement use has surged in the United States, while the consumption...
Agriculture is producing more with more. That’s the problem. Written by Marya Barlow, Virginia Tech Farmers are producing more. That's the good news. The bad news is that globally, they're using more land, fertilizer, machinery, and other resources to do it. For farmers, that can mean higher...
TAMPA, FL, Sept. 21, 2026 -- Where The Food Comes From is making the leap into major network syndication. Following five successful seasons on the RFD-TV Network, the hit food and farming series will jump to ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX affiliates across the U.S. in January. The massive footprint...
Ricky Dollison's family has been farming in deep rural Georgia for many generations. He raises pigs, cows, goats, elderberries for toothpaste and other products, peanuts for peanut butter, a variety of crops to hit hot markets -- in other words, he's an old-fashioned farmer. Ricky and his siblings...
Move Over, Lycopene. Tomatoes’ Secret Sauce May Be Phytoene New study suggests a lesser-known compound in tomatoes may help protect against fatty liver disease, which affects more than 1 in 3 American adults Written by Genevieve Rajewski, Associate Director of Media Relations For decades, the red...
