nutrition research

A recent twin study hints that one-size-fits-all diets might be doomed to fail. Call it incompatibility.

My career and my experience as a patient have given me a unique perspective as to how cannabis-derived products, like cannabidiol (CBD), should be regulated.

Smoking has been the No. 1 preventable cause of cancer for decades, but obesity is poised to take the top spot.

A new study has found that one in five of the world's deaths are linked to bad eating habits, and we need good policy to address that.

Want a healthier heart? Get at least a fifth of your daily calories from your breakfast and stop watching so much TV.

Signs that your horse is suffering from stress include poor appetite, weight loss, poor body condition, cribbing, diarrhea and teeth grinding.

Dr. Paul Talalay, a noted molecular pharmacologist who headed a Johns Hopkins School of Medicine research team that found a chemical in broccoli that boosted the cancer-fighting abilities of humans and animal cells, died Sunday of heart failure at his Roland Park home. He was 95.

Fast food fans today are ordering off menus that have grown more apt to make them fat.

Nutritionists say there are some benefits of fasting on and off to loose weight — when it's done right, But they caution that there also dangers to intermittent fasting, and that some claims are not backed by science.

The proposal to replace SNAP with “America’s harvest box,” a box of “shelf-stable” canned and boxed goods, for those households receiving over $90 per month, is perplexing and concerning to say the least.

Tens of millions of African-Americans are disproportionately affected by chronic kidney disease. African Americans are three times more likely than whites to have the disease. While they make up 13.2 percent of the U.S. population, they account for more than 35 percent of those on dialysis.

Vitamin infusions have become popular among those seeking hydration or an extra boost of energy, but some doctors question if there is any real health benefit.

Oxygen depletion has been a scourge for decades in the Chesapeake Bay, where excessive nutrient pollution creates "dead zones." Similar problems are spreading rapidly around the world, according to a new paper in the journal Science, threatening ecosystems.

The Maryland Zoo announced the death of five-year-old giraffe Juma.

Rising carbon dioxide levels are not just warming the globe, but causing oceans to become more acidic. That threatens all aquatic ecosystems, but especially estuaries like the Chesapeake Bay.

Welcome to the brave new world of pet food, where more and more people, increasingly interested in eating healthier foods themselves and increasingly buying healthier, more nutritious — and more exp

A growing number of dieticians and doctors are practicing nutritional genetics - or looking at the way variations in genes can modify the affects of nutrients on health. They are using it to help patients figure out which foods they should eat, and avoid, for their biological makeup.

Baltimarket, made up of community-based food-access programs, is working with corner stores to increase their supply of healthy foods, but more funding is needed to make the initiative effective.

A growing number of Howard County families are moving toward a family-wide plant-based diet.

A new study by Jed Fahey, a nutritional biochemist at Johns Hopkins, and a team of researchers based in Europe and the U.S. suggests that sulforaphane, a compound that is found naturally in broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables, can reduce some of the harmful effects of Type II diabetes in overweight adults.

Vitreon America Inc. will move its headquarters to Baltimore City from Northern Virginia, bringing 200 full-time jobs over five years and a 200,000-square-foot high-tech laboratory, company and state officials announced Monday

Replacing some saturated fats such as steak and butter with unsaturated fats such as avocados and canola oil, and not carb-filled junk food, can reduce a person's chance of developing heart disease as much as cholesterol lowering statins, according to new advice from the American Heart Association

Nutritionists from University of Maryland Medical System regularly provide a post to the Picture of Health blog. The latest post is from dietetic intern Kylie

As much as 40 percent of food is wasted nationally every year and much of it is nutritious, representing an enormous missed opportunity to improve people's diets and prevent hunger, according to Johns Hopkins researchers

Doctors have used charcoal in emergency rooms for years to treat drug overdoses and poisonings. Some pediatricians even tell parents to keep a bottle in their medicine cabinet in case their kid accidentally ingests toilet bowel cleaner or bug spray. And now the ingredient is becoming more mainstream and touted by some for regular use, including to whiten teeth and zap acne away.

Calcium supplements that many women take to boost bone health leave them at risk for heart disease, a new study by Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers have found.

Three hours of exercise a week can reduce breast cancer risk up to 10 percent in post menopausal women.

When it comes to life-threatening illnesses in children, many families are learning that some of the best treatment doesn't come from a pill.

Maybe you’ve noticed it when you watch TV shows and movies from a few decades ago. Or when you look at old photographs. Or when you go to a public beach or

If the constant chatter about food trends bugs you, just wait for this one. It's got legs to stand on and has taken flight in recent years.

Doctors have long told pregnant women to get enough of the nutrient folate to ensure proper brain development in their babies, but new research suggests too much of the vitamin appears to raise the risk of autism spectrum disorders

Lutherville-based Baltimore Coffee and Tea Co. roasts 125 varieties of coffee and 135 varieties of tea. Until now, none of the coffee contained broccoli.

March is National Peanut Month.

Omega-3 fatty acids found naturally in fish have been shown to improve cardiovascular health and are possibly staving off other maladies such as cancer, but levels of the fats are likely altered by a shift at the farms to plant-based feed from fish meal and oil

Over the past several years, cold-pressed juices and smoothies made with fresh fruits and vegetables have become increasingly popular; juice and smoothie bars are a $2 billion industry, according to market research company IBISWorld, and juice bars and juice-making companies are popping up across Baltimore.

The Maryland Healthy Vending Act will make healthier choices more widely available. If the Maryland General Assembly passes this bill, 75 percent of food and drinks offered in state-operated vending machines will meet national nutrition standards — making decidedly healthier choices more available.

Heart disease remains the leading cause of death for Americans, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, with just more than 600,000 people dying because of heart disease each year. More than 700,000 people have a heart attack each year.

When Ashley Boyd's daughter Autumn Greer was about 3 months old, she stopped growing and gaining weight, despite what appeared to be a healthy appetite.

Under Armour presented its vision of the future of fitness at the high-profile Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. First the athletic wear maker unveiled its first-ever collection of fitness devices, a suite of products that included a wristband, a heart-rate monitor and a Wi-Fi-enabled scale, and it upgraded the UA Record application that powers those devices. It capped the week announcing plans to partner with IBM Watson's artificial intelligence to bring virtual coaching to fitness

Republicans in Congress think the nutrition guideline process is out of control and are now trying to rein in the panel. By their lights, nutrition scientists should concern themselves with nutrition — not sustainability. Critics say they're pandering to special interests. The funny thing is: Both sides may be right.

The Summer Meals Act, H.R. 1728, is a straightforward proposal that would support millions of American children in getting access to affordable, nutritious food over the summer months. Legislative action is needed now in order to prepare students, sponsors and state administrators for the summer of 2016.

The Chesapeake Bay's waters are warming, in some places rising more rapidly even than the region's air temperatures, a new University of Maryland study finds. If unchecked, scientists say, the trend could complicate costly, long-running efforts to restore the ailing estuary, worsening fish-suffocating dead zones over time and even altering the food web on which the bay's fish and crabs depend.

Researchers at Stanford University and at Johns Hopkins' Bloomberg School of Public Health say school-prepared meals may contain unsafe levels of bisphenol A, or BPA.

Unfortunately, one of the most series health issues facing children in America is obesity.

Flowers, like herbs and other plants, have long been a staple in the human diet, not only flavoring foods and drinks but serving as folk therapies for a range of health maladies. Now they're popping up in products marketed as health drinks.

Four of five Howard County Council members voted on Friday to overturn County Executive Allan Kittleman's veto of a bill that creates a set of nutritional guidelines for the food and drinks sold in Howard County government vending machines.

By the spring of 2013, they had launched Fifth Quarter Fresh, a chocolate milk they say has more protein, calcium and other nutrients than typical sports recovery drinks.

Using your smartphone in the right way can actually help to improve your overall health thanks to amazing developments in mobile fitness technologies over the past five years.