Diet

A new study finds the industry giant was frequently given the right to oversee and even terminate public-sector research.

One new study confirms marijuana smokers prefer junk food, but another finds they are actually a bit thinner than non-users.

Early hominins may have bashed bones to harvest fatty nutrients from marrow and brains, creating a cerebral expansion that kickstarted evolution.

The Meatless Monday campaign has done what federal nutrition policy has not: ban meat—at least for a day.

Although research debunks white supremacists' claims about lactose intolerance, race has long played a role in American milk-drinking.

Due to malnutrition, the country once had one of the highest rates of stunted children in the world, but those numbers are falling.

Quick slim downs, cleanses, celebrity diets, and all the other diet fads have been around for a lot longer than you'd think.

It's simple: Eat less meat.

Poor kids deserve the same chance at reducing their pesticide exposure as their richer peers.

What a bee-free diet might look like.

On causal impotence and whether consumer choice even matters when it comes to our global food system.

Did Big Ag’s beef-loving cowboys just lasso the 2015 Dietary Guidelines? It sure does look that way.

New data on vegetable consumption raises a question we too easily overlook.

Yes, but don’t mention them to Fido.

Yes, but not one that allows us to eat them.

A slew of new dinner kits promise gourmet meals with a fraction of the effort. But at what cost?

On our farms, in our stores, and at our dining tables, aesthetics and efficiency are at war. Everybody loses.

The answer is a very qualified yes.

Maybe! Here’s why we should care.

Meet Arthur Haines, the neo-aboriginal Mainer who is turning paleo fantasy into optimistic reality.

Not much, according to a new study.

Pigs have personalities, and a curiously compelling history of domestication. But that doesn’t mean we’re ever going to stop eating them.

Calls for an end to industrialized agriculture are everywhere, but factory farms continue to grow in both size and influence. Where are we going wrong?

Consumers want more than fisheries can supply, and certification standards are falling.