Tag: Nutrition
How to stop using food to reward and punish your kids
Stephanie Meyers, Boston University
At one time or another, just about every parent uses food to reward their kids for good behavior and achievements –...
How to stop using food to reward and punish your kids
Stephanie Meyers, Boston University
At one time or another, just about every parent uses food to reward their kids for good behavior and achievements –...
Restricting SNAP benefits could hurt millions of Americans – and local...
Cindy Leung, University of Michigan and Julia A. Wolfson, University of Michigan
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is trying to restrict access to Supplemental Nutrition...
Confused about what to eat? Science can help
P.K. Newby, Harvard University
Do you feel like nutritionists are always changing their minds? Do you want science-based information about diet but don’t know whom...
Supplements for brain health show no benefit – a neurologist explains...
Steven DeKosky, University of Florida
Americans and others around the world have turned increasingly to dietary supplements in order to maintain or preserve their brain...
Let them eat more fat? Researcher argues that a balance of...
Heidi Silver, Vanderbilt University
Public health guidelines, such as the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, have long emphasized reducing dietary fat intake, but nutritionists and other...
Yes, eating meat affects the environment, but cows are not killing...
Frank M. Mitloehner, University of California, Davis
As the scale and impacts of climate change become increasingly alarming, meat is a popular target for action....
Breastfeeding has been the best public health policy throughout history
Joan Y. Meek, Florida State University
Breastfeeding has long been the gold standard for infant nutrition. The American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Family...
EXPLORING NATURE
Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the...
Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison
