PRINCETON, WV (LOOTPRESS) – A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held on Thursday to commemorate the grand opening of Wild and Wonderful Nutrition, one of the newest local businesses to make its way to the Princeton area. Friends, family, and community members were joined on Thursday by members of the Princeton Economic Development Authority, as well as…

By creating food and nutrition insecurity screening within Tufts Medicine’s Epic electronic health record and patient engagement system, the new Tufts University Food is Medicine Institute in Boston and its team of medical, science, technology and health policy collaborators hope to further food is medicine science. They also aim to figure out how to address…

Malnutrition persists at unacceptably high levels on a global scale.1,2 Worldwide, 20.5 million newborns (14.6% of all live births) have a low weight at birth. Among children under five years of age, 149.2 million are stunted, 45.4 million are wasted (6.7%), and 38.9 million (5.7%) are overweight (5.7%).1,2 Mozambique still experiences a chronic malnutrition burden…

October 27, 2023October 27, 2023 Clemson University has received $768,000 in funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to implement the first year of $3.8 million, five-year High Obesity Program (HOP) in rural and underserved areas of South Carolina. The CDC provides HOP funding to universities with cooperative extension services to address…

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WRBL) — They say an apple a day can keep the doctor away, but what about a complete diet filled with nutritious fruits, vegetables, proteins and carbs? According to local nonprofit founder Dewayne Webb of All About Fitness Family LLC, a healthy diet can transform lives. In order to help Columbus locals get…

Loading the player… Food insecurity is a global issue that poses a significant threat to Black communities. Tuskegee University’s Food and Nutritional Sciences program, however, intends to solve this problem. Speaking about it on “TheGrio with Marc Lamont Hill” are food and nutrition sciences major Diallo Patterson and Dr. Olga Bolden-Tiller, dean and director of…

Are you really what you eat? Decades of research back up the saying that you are what you eat and support the important health effects of good nutrition. Healthy food choices increase people’s overall life expectancy and reduce the risk of developing a wide variety of medical issues, including heart disease and cancer. The health…

Future of Nutrition Summit Speaker Line-up Unveiled | Food Engineering

Please introduce yourself and tell us a bit about your background. My name is Ashley Porterfield and I am a Sports Performance Dietitian working alongside Erica Capellino covering the nutrition needs of all of the teams at Galaxy from the Academy, to the second team, all the way to the first team. I am also…

It all started with a question from a reader in Missouri: “Can pumpkin seeds minimize an overactive bladder? Is it better to eat ground-up pumpkin seeds or whole seeds? How much is advisable?” Sure enough, there is evidence that pumpkin seeds — more specifically the oil in pumpkin seeds — may help treat what is…