Changes in eating that directly impact industries like grain-based foods have gained strength in recent years to the point that many national industries are looking for ways to affect food preferences ...

Researchers at Virginia Tech are studying the effects of changing food spending patterns and the impact on farmers and the food supply chain as a whole. Households spend more money on food outside the ...

Poor diet quality is strongly associated with elevated cardiovascular disease morbidity and mortality risk. This American Heart Association scientific statement for food-based cardiovascular health ...

A scientist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service assessed the current Healthy Vegetarian Dietary Pattern of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans and found that it ...

The milpa diet is a traditional Mesoamerican dietary pattern rooted in Indigenous polyculture agriculture, combining maize, ...

The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee's (DGAC)Health Equity Working Group and Food Pattern Modeling and Data Analysis subcommittees provided details on its pilot program to develop dietary intake ...

“What do you want for dinner?” should be easy enough to answer, right? But when adding the complexity of where that meal comes from, how you’re going to get it and all the ways it can be modified, the ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American During the summer of 2018, the future of ...