Although nutrition has made significant advances in recent years — such as recognizing the harm caused by trans fats — it’s surprising that, even within the academic field, there’s still ongoing ...

You both start the same diet. You both hit the gym. Your friend sheds 5 kgs. You? Barely 1. Sound familiar? It’s not about motivation, or magic metabolism — it’s in your DNA. We live in an era where ...

Louisiana researchers are taking part in a National Institutes of Health study, Nutrition for Precision Health, to look at how different genes metabolize different foods. The nationwide study has 14 ...

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Metabolism, researchers presented a method to quantify food-derived deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in human stool metagenomes using a computationally ...

San Francisco, CA - New data presented last week at EPI|NPAM 2010, the Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention and Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Metabolism 2010 Conference, provided ...

NEW YORK - As a registered dietitian, Ruth DeBusk has eaten a healthy diet for a long time. As a geneticist, she wondered if she could do better. So earlier this year, she had her DNA tested by a ...

Besides being environmentally friendly, eating a vegan diet appears to improve health and slow biological aging. A vegan meal including a crepe, cabbage, and a vegan sauce. (Credit: Ula Zarosa / CC BY ...

New research has suggested that polar bears could be rewriting their DNA in order to adapt to warmer climates.