Health

A Nutrition Facts label tells you only part of the story about a food. Learn to use all of the clues on a food package to interpret the numbers you see.

Moves by Big Food and government dominated natural products news in 2016. Here’s a look at the stories shaping the industry this year and for the foreseeable future.

Tasting the rainbow needn’t involve small, chewy candies. Employ the bounty of colorful fruits and vegetables to achieve an Instagram-worthy plate of #rainbowfoods with zero guilt.

Just as we search for a panacea-that single drug or supplement or food ingredient that will heal all ills-we seek panacea’s disease corollary: that single gene or molecule or biological trigger at the root of all illnesses.

Most people think good-tasting food causes obesity, but new research suggests that is not always the case.

New Hope’s senior food editor gazes into the natural products crystal ball to divine what trends will drive consumers, manufacturers, farmers and retailers in the new year.

Instead of stressing out, de-stress with herbs.

Scientists and doctors alike are making strides in how to produce safer wheat-based products for celiac sufferers and ways to treat children with the disease more effectively.

Nearly everyone knows that vitamin D helps build strong bones. But it has plenty of other uses, too, and some are incredibly important for your health. Nearly all your cells have receptors (that is, docking ports) for vitamin D, meaning that it influences pretty much everything that happens in your body.