How the food environment impacts dietary choices

Share on PinterestNew research examines how various factors in one’s food environment affect food consumption and obesity. Spencer Platt/Getty Images A healthy diet is essential to good health. Multiple factors…

FDA to Propose Acacia (Gum Arabic) as a Dietary Fiber | Hogan Lovells

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently granted a citizen petition concerning the classification of acacia (gum arabic) as a dietary fiber.  As a result of the petition, FDA…

FERN’s Back Forty: Why ‘access’ to healthy food became America’s response to its dietary woes

Back Forty will bring you periodic reviews, interviews and reporter insights about the stories they wrote. Sign up here or below. Early in Priya Fielding-Singh’s important new book, How the…

Quantifying dietary acid load in U.S. cancer survivors: an exploratory study using NHANES data | BMC Nutrition

Banerjee T, Crews DC, Wesson DE, Tilea A, Saran R, Rios Burrows N, et al. Dietary acid load and chronic kidney disease among adults in the United States. BMC Nephrol.…