Government policy influences all parts of the food marketing chain, including farms, food manufacturers, retailers, restaurants, and diverse...

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...

Marion Nestle's new book is Soda Politics: Taking on Big Soda (and Winning) ( Oxford University Press , 2015). The book is thorough...

There appears to be a large literature using the same words to say that "nanotechnology" is an "enabling" technology tha...

In Mother Jones this week, Kiera Butler has a striking report about the food industry presence at a conference of the California Dietetic ...

Andy Bellatti last month summarized in a column for Civil Eats the recent activities of Dietitians for Professional Integrity, an initiativ...

While enjoying the excellent sessions sponsored by the American Society of Nutrition (ASN) at the Experimental Biology 2013 meetings here i...

An excerpt from the first chapter of Food Policy in the United States: An Introduction (Routledge/Earthscan) . The 2010 Dietary Guidelin...

The Hunger and Environmental Nutrition (HEN) practice group within the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) has long been encouraging ...

While labeling strategies provide a sound public policy response to some food ingredient dilemmas, in other cases it is simpler and more eff...

Here is a newsletter I received today from an email account labeled oddly: "ASN on behalf of Corn Refiners Association." Foll...

Why Calories Count , the new book by Marion Nestle and Malden Nesheim, nicely bridges the world of food policy commentary and nutrition scie...

Following the long - awaited new Institute of Medicine (IOM) report on salt released this week, here's a quick summary of a debate tha...

Some major food companies -- Kraft, ConAgra, Unilever -- have announced voluntary initiatives to reduce salt. In other countries, such as t...

A Princeton University research team is reporting that HFCS increases obesity in rats more than sucrose does. The research appeared in Febr...

Call for Nominations The Best Economics Paper: Food Safety and Nutrition To recognize excellence in research endeavors that advance knowledg...

Several front-of-pack or supermarket-shelf nutrition labeling programs use scoring systems to rate food products. Examples include the Hanna...

A new study in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association shows that many grocery and restaurant foods understate their food energy (...

Forbes Magazine this month named Monsanto as "Company of the Year." Monsanto's business model employs the company's monop...