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Collaboration with academia and, often, technology companies is essential in working together to advance the cause of food and water security around the world.

A new Johns Hopkins University study finds that junk food images are almost twice as distracting as healthy food images.

As a natural vegetarian food, moringa is rich in antioxidants and contains a healthy mix of nutrients, including Vitamin E and Folic acid.

Interview with behavioral scientist Dr. Brian Wansink, author of Mindless Eating (2006) and Slim by Design (2014) and founder of the Food and Brand Lab at Cornell University. The Food and Brand Lab was started in 1997 at the University of Illinois (before moving to Cornell in 2005), to explore how humans relate to food with the end goal of uncovering solutions to improve eating environments and help individuals eat better. Wansink analyzes why we eat what we eat.

A deep dive into archival documents from the 1950s and 1960s produced compelling evidence that a sugar trade association not only paid for but also initiated and influenced research expressly to exonerate sugar as a major risk factor for coronary heart disease (CHD).

People go vegan or veg for many reasons, but losing weight may become another reason to go meatless.