State of the Union: Maternal and Child Health Status in the US
America is a highly developed nation, but our maternal health care is severely lacking. First year NICBC student, Michelle Severs,Continue Reading
Category: Science
The Truth about Organic Snack Foods
NICBC student EJ Johnson compares organic and conventional snack foods and breaks down the differences (and lack thereof) between theContinue Reading
It’s time to put warning labels on Roundup
AFE student Lindsay Gaesser rounds up the arguments for putting warning labels on Roundup, the notorious herbicide that’s often inContinue Reading
The Meat Fight: We Need a Clear Food Label for “Meat”
This month, Xuemeng Chen explains why we need a clear food label on what is “meat.” On February 9, 2018,Continue Reading
Action Alert: Call for Nominations for the 2020 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee
Do you care about the guidance Americans receive on diet and nutrition? Do you want this guidance to provide recommendationsContinue Reading
Book Review: Clean Meat – How Growing Meat Without Animals Will Revolutionize Dinner and the World
Imagine a world where farmers are microbiologists rather than cattle ranchers. Do I have your attention? Good. Enter Clean Meat.Continue Reading
Branchfood Holds First in 4-Part Panel Series on Technological Innovation in Food and Farming
by Laura Barley On February 22, Branchfood hosted the first panel in a four-part series entitled The Future of Food,Continue Reading
To Meat, or Not to Meat? (Is That Really the Question?)
by Kathleen Nay After eight years of keeping a vegetarian diet, I’m compelled to ask myself: why am I stillContinue Reading
Gut Microbiota and the Developing Child
by Ayten Salahi Undernutrition poses a formidable threat to the health and life trajectory of children around the world. AContinue Reading
Evaluating the Pinnertest: The Importance of Scientific Evidence
by Erin Child So, you think you have a food intolerance? What do you do? You could call your doctorContinue Reading
5 Reasons the Whole30 is Not the Anti-Diet It Claims to Be
by Hannah Meier, RD, LDN How does the Whole30 Diet hold up from a dietitian’s perspective? Hannah Meier breaks itContinue Reading
Putting a Pause on Peanut Butter Panic: New Guidelines Seek to Reduce Peanut Allergy Risk
by Erin Child Do you like peanut butter? So do I. I’m kind of obsessed. Perhaps you add it toContinue Reading
WIC at the Crossroads of the Opioid Epidemic
by Danièle Todorov The complexity and pervasiveness of the opioid epidemic has forced government agencies to be innovative with theirContinue Reading
What’s the Deal with Vitamin D?
by Katelyn Castro There is always one nutrient that seems to linger in the media for a while. Lately, vitaminContinue Reading
What is Intermittent Fasting, and Does It Really Work?
By Hannah Meier You may have heard of caloric restriction and the myriad benefits it supposedly brings to the metabolicContinue Reading
