If a person wants to lose weight or stay healthy, it is crucial for him/her to include calorie-deficit foods in their regular ...

Jicama is also known as yam bean, Mexican turnip, shankhalu (in Bengali), singkamas (in the Philippines), kuzu-imo (in Japan), and bang kuang (in Korea and China). The root vegetable has a brown, ...

Nearly half of all the calories that toddlers eat in the United Kingdom come from ultra-processed food, according to recent research, and this number rises to 59 percent among 7-year-olds.

Good health is less about avoiding carbs and more about choosing your carb-containing foods wisely. Photo / Getty Images As well as Jennifer Bowden’s columns in the NZ Listener and here at ...

Despite progress over the past decades, child malnutrition remains high and adult obesity rates are increasing. Investments to scale up high-impact nutrition interventions could save the lives of 6.2 ...

"Nutritionally, there are pluses and minuses to cooking vegetables," says Helen Rasmussen, a senior research dietitian at Tufts' Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging.

Here’s our process. If you’re following a low carb or ketogenic (keto) diet, you may use protein powders to supplement your diet. While you can likely meet your protein needs with food alone ...

CALORIES MIGHT BE among the most misunderstood aspects of our health and the ways our bodies work. Are calories an enemy to be abstained from at all times? Why is there so much fixation on ...

The nutrition landscape has changed quite a bit during my 9 years as a dietitian, but one thing has remained the same — people are scared of carbohydrates. Carbs are an essential macronutrient ...

Kayla Girgen, RD, is a licensed dietitian who specializes in weight management and weight loss for patients after bariatric surgery. Carbohydrates (colloquially known as carbs) often get a bad rap ...

If you are trying to shed a few pounds—and if it’s safe for you to do so—it’s helpful to have a basic understanding of calories. A calorie is technically defined as the amount of energy ...