Spice Up the Holidays with Five Thanksgiving Herbs and Spices
November 20, 2018
Every year on the fourth Thursday of November, I walk into a house full of family, friends and food. Year after year, some things never change. I can always count…
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Big Data and Health Discoveries That Are Worth Salivating Over
August 1, 2018
The emails hit the inboxes of 23andMe members earlier this year. While their customers had grown accustomed to periodic updates about their health-risk indicators and genetic traits, this particular email…
The Microbiome with Megan Meyer, PhD [PODCAST]
April 17, 2018
Did you know that each of our guts has a unique living community containing billions of bacteria? It’s called the microbiome, and on this edition of DataDish: Your Trusted Serving…
Fast Take: “Ultra-Processed” Foods and Cancer
February 16, 2018
In today’s food-centric culture, the phrase “processed foods” gets thrown around a lot. Typically the term carries a negative undertone and sometimes for good reasons. For example, research has shown…
What’s the Dish on the DASH Diet?
February 14, 2018
Following diets or eating patterns is pretty common in the United States, with one in seven Americans reporting that they stick to a specific eating pattern or diet. While fad…
Processing the Raw Water Trend
January 10, 2018
Not even a week into 2018 and a new food fad has spread throughout social feeds and news outlets. This one was particularly surprising to me given that I spend…
Fast Take: Does Eating Sugar Cause Cancer?
October 19, 2017
Identifying new mechanisms and pathways are key in science. They help answer long-term questions and also generate new scientific questions. And figuring out even one step of a pathway takes…
Passing on Tom Brady’s Diet
September 21, 2017
September means several things to me- the start of my favorite season (fall), my birthday (hooray!) and the beginning of football season. I grew up watching college football with my…
Newsbite: Is it necessary to avoid all processed foods?
September 18, 2017
There are so many misperceptions circulating about the science and technology behind making food more abundant, nutritious and safe. Because of this, the IFIC Foundation’s team of self-proclaimed food nerds,…
Fast Take: Stop Pitting Macronutrients Against Each Other
August 30, 2017
Low-fat, high-carb: new data from the PURE cohort study The internets are abuzz with a new study from the journal Lancet surrounding an age-old controversy in the nutrition community: low-fat…