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Food banks are increasingly saying no to cakes, holiday candy and other junk food donations. But some schools are sending them healthier donations by salvaging uneaten foods in their cafeterias.

When kids drink more water and less sugary drinks, rates of obesity decrease, a new study finds. Researchers compared the body mass index of elementary...

An advisory panel had recommended telling Americans to cut back on red and processed meats. But that controversial advice is missing from the update to the government's official nutrition guidelines.

Coca-Cola is providing financial support to a group of scientists who promote the argument that Americans are overly concerned with nutrition, while they…

WHO says there's strong evidence that excessive sugar is bad for us. So it's recommending that we cut back significantly.

SugarScience, a website created by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, distills the findings of 8,000 scientific studies on the health effects of sugar. The takeaway? Eat less.

Mothers are more likely than fathers to read nutrition labels when considering food and drink purchases, according to the latest C.S. Mott Children’s…

According to a recent report from the CDC, 17 percent of people drink at least one sugar-sweetened soda each day.

Today, I am in clinic, seeing one of my favorite 14-year-olds. Just a few months prior, he talked about his goals for getting to a healthier weight. This…

http://media.soundmedicine.org/segments/060114_1.mp3A recent study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association found that consuming added…