
Warning: Falling Strength Ahead
Researchers take a crucial step in the fight against muscle loss.
We have long known that the older people get, the less robust their muscles >>

Is Calorie Counting Dead?
For a century now, dieters have been trying—and failing— to lose weight by obsessively tracking the calorie content of everything they eat. There has to be a better way.
Lulu Hunt Peters never managed to become a household name. But the weight-loss method >>

Rethinking Full-Fat Dairy
Fats in milk and cheese aren't connected to a higher risk of death.
Fats in milk, cheese, and other dairy products are not linked to a higher >>

10 Things You Need to Know About Fiber
A nutritional epidemiologist separates the facts from the hype.
With a variety of fiber types to consider—and health claims on food labels to >>

More Good News About Cocoa
Consuming a flavonoid in cocoa helped healthy mice delay aging.
As if you needed another reason to enjoy cocoa products, a recent study by >>

Eating for the Earth
Are the Dietary Guidelines for Americans sustainable?
Nicole Tichenor Blackstone, N12, NG16, who recently joined the Friedman School as an assistant >>

The Fridge-in-the-Classroom Test
Could putting refrigerators in classrooms lead to healthier snacks?
At Sean Cash’s child’s school, parents donate snacks to classrooms. It’s a nice tradition, >>

Native Americans and the Fight for Water
Leslie Sanchez is researching whether having clear water rights has helped reservations grow more crops.
In 1908, the Supreme Court decided that Native American tribes have a right to >>