The new study, performed with mice, demonstrates that the diet can have potentially dangerous impacts on metabolic health, ...

Japan’s national legislature passed groundbreaking revisions to its sex crimes laws Friday. The House of Councillors, the upper house of Japan’s National Diet, voted in favor of changes to Chapter 22 ...

Digestion time between vegetarians and meat-eaters depends on the food eaten. Fiber in vegetables is much more easily ...

Artificial sweeteners are everywhere, but the jury is still out on whether these chemicals are harmless. Also called nonnutritive sweeteners, these can be synthetic, such as saccharin and aspartame, ...

An extraordinary session of parliament, originally scheduled for this week and expected to elect a new prime minister, will ...

It's National Dessert Month so we spoke with an expert about how a sweet treat can actually be a healthy part of a normal, ...

Focusing on a planet-healthy diet can provide nutritious food to the global population while reducing environmental damage, a new EAT-Lancet Commission report says.

It’s suppertime in the Amazon of lowland Bolivia, and Ana Cuata Maito is stirring a porridge of plantains and sweet manioc over a fire smoldering on the dirt floor of her thatched hut, listening for ...

Belinda McLoyd has been thinking about peanut butter. McLoyd, 64, receives a small monthly payment through the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, previously known as food stamps. “They ...

Almost six in 10 Americans have pro-inflammatory diets, increasing the risk of health problems including heart disease and cancer, according to a new study that used a tool designed to examine ...

This year, Littleford-Colquhoun joined researchers from Yellowstone National Park and Brown’s Genomic Opportunities Lab on a ...