Three nutrition trends to stay away from
Skip the cleanses, alkaline diets and IV vitamin therapy; there's no evidence they work and plenty of evidence they can be harmful…
Cool the hype around genetics and health care
We are a long way from identifying definitive biomarkers to illness and personalized gene therapies are likely generations away…
Fishing for seafood fraud report of questionable value
The methodology used by non-profit Oceana for its report lacks scientific rigour…
The red meat merry-go-round
The protein war isn’t about the amount of meat we should eat, but rather about how studies on nutrition should be interpreted. It's messy…
Antibiotics no cure for colds or flu
And using an antibiotic when not needed makes patients more vulnerable to antibiotic-resistant infections…
Going bananas for a threatened fruit
A deadly fungus is spreading all over the world, so we can expect to pay more for bananas. But our world-class scientists could help solve the problem…
Lab-grown coffee – agriculture’s rising revolution
We are at the dawn of a dramatic change in agricultural that’s drawing acute attention to the true cost of bringing food to our plates…
The dark side of the Non-GMO Project
Suggesting that food products with the Non-GMO Project label are safer and more nutritious is simply misleading and rests on scrawny scientific evidence…
Say no to a carbon tax, for the sake of your children
Research shows that only those born 45 years after a carbon tax is implemented will see any benefits that outweigh higher energy prices…
Planting the seeds for broader understanding of food’s origins
In the retail food business, customers have plenty of questions about how their food is produced. The answers often surprise them. Interest groups are taking advantage of people's ignorance about GMOs in their messaging…