Blog Category: Food

Tools to Assess Food Insecurity in Patients

Whether a condition of post-pandemic inflation, crop failures due to extreme weather changes, or the result of urban food deserts, we need ways to start that conversation in a compassionate way.

Smoking and obesity results in markedly higher health-care costs

A new study finds that smokers and the obese ring up substantially higher annual health care costs than their nonsmoking, non-obese peers. [More…]…

PLoS Medicine Series on The Food Industry

PLoS Medicine has begin a series over the next few weeks that will examine the activities and influence of the food and beverage industry in the health arena. [More…]…

Water With Meals May Encourage Wiser Choices

Researchers from the University of Oregon has found that young children consumed more vegetables when served with water instead of a sweetened beverage. [More…]…