THE QUESTION

Food studies frustrate me. One week a study says one thing. The next week another study says the opposite. Why do researchers churn out so many contradictory studies – and why does the news media keep covering them?

While many of us try to eat healthy on a daily basis, sometimes our busy lifestyle gets in the way. Enter fast food.

But all those calories, high salt and high fat foods can take a toll on your body, which is why many people opt for good exercise over restrictive diets. However, you ...

How the pursuit of perfect, fresh food is feeding landfills—not people

Food statistics can have a way of zeroing in on our collective eatingZeitgeist with uncomfortable data points. For example, U.S. consumers waste up to 50 percent more food than Americans did in the 1970s...

Smoking is back. Cigarettes may have been shown the (restaurant) door more than a decade ago, but these days chefs are all over smoke – in food this time. It’s not just meat and fish, either: butter, fruit and vegetables are all candidates for a dose of smouldering flavour, and it&rsq...

Protein is often touted as the key to healthy weight loss. But a talking point repeated by protein promoters—that the nutrient fills you up—has remained up for scientific debate.

The average price of food in global markets has fallen by 14.5 per cent in the last year as wholesale prices fell for oil, grains and other food products, according to the UN FAO Food Price Index.

We’ve all been there, tired after work, desperately scouring the supermarket aisles for a semblance of supper. Faced with aisle upon aisle of choice, we rely on external cues to help us make quick decisions. Labels such as "natural" and "low fat" silently seduce us.

Everywhere she looked, she found glaring conflicts of interest. "Without any trouble, I could identify industry-funded nutrition studies by their titles," says the New York University professor. "It was so obvious."

Bowing to consumer pressure for greater transparency about the food they eat, on Tuesday Subway began selling sandwiches made with chicken raised without antibiotics. By 2025, the chain says, all the meat across its 30,000 North American restaurants will be antibiotic free, reports CBS News contr...