Heart disease remains the leading cause of death in the United States, underscoring the need for evidence-based, sustainable dietary strategies to support cardiovascular health. A newly published ...

Over 5 million patients are admitted to an ICU in the United States every year.1 While many patients only spend a day or two in the ICU, those that are critically ill stay much longer. Patients who ...

Does weight affect health? If so, to what degree? Most research shows that as BMI increases, cardiometabolic health decreases. But population-based trends can’t account for individual health, and the ...

Welcome to the Flavor Toolkit, a valuable resource designed to enhance your practice and support your clients in their nutritious eating journey. Here, you’ll find a collection of downloadable PDFs ...

Beginning in January of 2024, the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) bumped up the minimum required education level for prospective RDs from a bachelor’s degree to a master’s degree.1 It’s the ...

Passage of the Medical Nutrition Therapy Act, reintroduced in November in the US House of Representatives, is an effective solution to address the costly, continued rise of diet-related chronic ...

A widely prescribed diabetes drug may be sabotaging one of the most trusted strategies for preventing the disease: exercise. That is the conclusion of a Rutgers-led study published in The Journal of ...

The field of AI has existed since the 1950s, when scientists first posed the question, “Can machines think?” In the decades since, AI technology has quietly powered many of our everyday tools, from ...

Q: I have been hearing a lot about maltodextrin and its use as an additive in processed food and beverages. Is it safe to consume? A: Maltodextrin is a type of carbohydrate that undergoes processing ...

For many people, the holiday season is an extended time of joy, family gatherings, and celebration. But in order to celebrate, you may be spending long hours road tripping, sitting in airports, and ...

Deciding what to make for dinner or an afternoon snack can be a challenge at the best of times but toss confusion about processed and ultraprocessed foods into the mix, and the question of what to put ...

Metabolic syndrome (MetS) is a collection of disorders that include abdominal obesity, hypertension (HTN), dyslipidemia including high triglycerides (TGs) and/or low HDL cholesterol, and impaired ...