The high-stakes effort to set nutrition standards for the food industry and government programs like Head Start is about to ...

The 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines advise Americans to watch their sugar and alcohol consumption but fall short of recommending the drastic cuts recently suggested by the Dietary Guidelines Advisory ...

America’s top nutrition experts jockey to be part of a rite of passage in the field. The federal government chooses a small group of researchers to serve on a committee that spends months poring over ...

If you’re looking for a low-alcohol summer, the good news is that you have lots of options. Registered dietitian nutritionist Carrie Dennett shares a few.

The Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2020-2025, recommends limiting added sugars to less than 10 percent of calories per day. Always check the calorie amounts on sugar packet labels before buying ...

Benefits for cancer- and cardiovascular disease-specific mortality vanish with more than low levels of added sugar and saturated fat.

While this is about 12 to 16 percent of daily calories consumed, according to the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, added sugar should be limited to less than 10 percent of daily calories.

In March 2015 the WHO called on all countries to reduce daily intake of free sugars to 10% of their total energy intake and went even further with a “conditional” recommendation of reducing ...

Below you’ll find seven healthier soda options that registered dietitians around the country drink themselves and ...