For the food industry -- and also for meeting important public interest goals -- it would be beneficial for the U.S. federal government to c...

In a public comment submitted today, my colleagues Fang Fang Zhang, Jennifer Pomeranz, and I encourage the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines Adv...

Scientifically dubious information may sometimes appear in Google's "featured snippets." An online search -- in Google of...

The 2018 Gershoff Symposium , on April 27, will feature 4 presentations: "Food Labeling Chaos" (Keynote). Kathleen Merrigan, Exe...

The book Food Policy in the United States: An Introduction , whose second edition has just been released in the Earthscan Food and Agricultu...

Harry Kaiser (Cornell University) and I have enjoyed putting together a lively session later today, discussing the question: Are checkoff pr...

The Food and Environment Reporting Network (FERN) and the Nation have an in-depth article by Bridget Huber this week on national food polic...

A clear and effective video from Vox explains why exercise is not directly a cure for overweight. The video's message -- rightly -- is t...

Politico's Agenda today has a special issue on food policy. It prominently highlights the great work of my Friedman School colleagues...

The federal government's Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2015 were released this morning. This official publication of the Departments...

In early 2015, FDA wrote a warning letter to KIND Snacks, calling out the company for using the term "healthy" on nut-filled snac...

Presidential candidate Ben Carson was asked during debate this week about his ties to Mannatech, maker of a dubious nutrition supplement ba...

In a commentary today for the journal Science , several colleagues and I explain why we think it is fine to include considerations of enviro...

The British Medical Journal (BMJ) this week published an article/editorial by journalist Nina Teicholz blasting the Dietary Guidelines Advi...

The Friedman School's graduate student-organized research conference on "The Future of Food and Nutrition" will take place he...

Should the Dietary Guidelines for Americans address environmental sustainability issues? The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee (DGAC) ...

The U.S. food supply is far out of balance with dietary recommendations. A new study in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dieteti...

An independent evaluation reported today that the Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation succeeded in removing more than a trillion calories f...

In my school's latest Wednesday seminar, the epidemiologist and cardiologist Dariush Mozaffarian methodically builds the scientific case...

The federal government last December allowed a patent ( U.S. patent 8,609,158 ) for "Diane's Manna," a supplement that is ... ...