Assessing additives in school snacks, creating a healthier retail environment, (finally) banning BVO, and more in this week’s food safety, health, and nutrition news roundup. This week, CSPI released our 2023 Competitive Foods in Schools Report. This report builds on the 2021 School Meals Corporate Report Card and assesses the nutritional quality of Smart Snacks—the…

Welcome to Start TODAY. Sign up for our free Start TODAY newsletter to receive daily inspiration sent to your inbox — and join us on Instagram! You asked, we answered! Hundreds of Start TODAY members told us they wanted more healthy, balanced meal ideas to help them reach their health goals. This dietitian-designed meal plan gives you the…

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Broccoli haters now have an even better excuse to avoid greens: Survival. Experts say that being repulsed by certain foods — mushrooms, tomatoes and certain vegetables, for example — are actually part of a “survival mechanism,” according to psychologist Dr. Jennifer Carter. “If we eat something and feel sick and/or vomit, it could be harmful to…

If you are on the hunt for a diet that supports heart health, brain function, fertility, and so much more, then look no further than the Mediterranean Diet. As a dietary pattern that emulates how people who live along the Mediterranean Sea eat, following this diet means you will eat lots of plants and not…

Once enjoyed only at the Japanese sushi bar, edamame has found its way into mainstream American meals, serving up fresh flavor and big nutrition. Soybeans originated in Southeast Asia and were first cultivated by the Chinese as early as 1100 BC. It didn’t take long for the world to catch on to this versatile crop…

cottage cheese Cottage cheese pancakes? 575,000 views on TikTok. Cottage cheese ice cream? 163,000 likes and 12,000 shares. “It seems like 2023 is the year that cottage cheese finally gets the respect it deserves,” says another health influencer. They’re statistics and view counts that might make you chuckle. But cottage cheese can be a welcome…

<!– –> A healthy diet can help achieve glowing skin It’s a dream for every bride-to-be to walk down the aisle with radiant, glowing skin on her wedding day. The desire for that picture-perfect complexion has led many to explore various skincare and dietary choices. There’s a well-founded belief that what you eat can significantly…

Debora Melo van Lent, a PhD nutrition scientist and epidemiologist at UT Health San Antonio’s Glenn Biggs Institute for Alzheimer’s & Neurodegenerative Diseases, studies diets that might slow brain aging and reduce the risk of dementia. Melo van Lent and other researchers in her field have suspected that foods which cause inflammation speed up brain…

PRETORIA, 20 October 2023 – Young people across South Africa are stepping up to tackle the rising physical, mental, and economic costs of unhealthy lifestyles by launching the ‘My body, my health: my wealth’ campaign today at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), Pietermaritzburg campus, to mark the end of National Obesity Week, 16 to 20 October.  …