Why You Should Actually Break for Lunch

(CNN) If you’ve been trying to eat healthfully, you’ve probably heard about the benefits of eating breakfast. But you might be wondering whether it’s also important to pause for a midday lunch break — even with a very busy schedule…

Honoring Your Heritage — And Improving Your Health — Through Food

Food is more than just fuel. Food is a connection to the stories of our ancestors, and the stories of our descendants…

Are Fast Food Restaurants Tricking You Into Upsizing Your Order?

HOUSTON – “Have it your way” is Burger King’s slogan dating back to the 70s, but one Houston man says he feels the fast-food chain is intentionally misleading customers by steering them to order something they don’t actually want…

How the Pandemic Changed What We Eat

Looking to Reduce Salt in a Recipe? Here’s How and When You Should — and Shouldn’t — Do It

Salt is the most important seasoning tool in your kitchen — while also perhaps the most maligned. “It’s an essential nutrient, a chemical that our bodies can’t do without,” Harold McGee writes in “On Food and Cooking.” But whether due to actual medical advice or their own perceptions about its nutritional value, many seek to reduce their level of consumption of this vital mineral…

Food That Boosts Gut Microbes Could Be a New Way to Help Malnourished Kids

In the densely populated slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh, children survive on rice cooked with curry powder and cheap cookies and chips, packaged in appealing, colorful wrappers. These protein-poor foods provide scarce nutrients for growing bodies. Add in poor sanitation from multiple generations of a family often living in a single room and no access to health care, and these hardships are etched in these children’s malnourished bodies…

‘Ugly’ Produce Is Finally Finding a Second Life on the Shelves of Major Grocery Chains