Health-conscious owners of "smart phones" and home computers are thumbing and clicking their way to nutritious food choices. A downloadable version of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) ...

There are plenty of books, software programs and Web sites that provide nutrition information about foods, including calories, carbohydrates, protein and calcium. But what many of these commercial ...

MOTHER EARTH NEWS facilitated a pilot test over the summer and early fall of 2015 to examine the fatty-acid profiles of 32 grass-fed, free-ranged and pastured cows, lambs, pigs and chickens. At this ...

Food Composition Products - Data sets prepared by USDA-ARS's Nutrient Data Laboratory. These data sets can be downloaded to your computer and used in your programs. Some of the data sets available are ...

ASK DOCTOR K Anthony L. Komaroff, M.D. DEAR DOCTOR K: I’m in my 80s. These days, I’m not very hungry and I eat a lot less than I used to. My daughter is worried I’m not getting enough nutrients. Is ...

We used a validated 131-food item food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) to identify the foods that contributed the most to protein intake among 70 356 women in the Nurses’ Health Study (NHS, 1984). The ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency and US Department of Agriculture should jointly establish a Nutrient Control Implementation Initiative to learn more about the effectiveness of actions meant to ...