Explore Icelandic food culture, from traditional rye bread and skyr to lamb and seafood, and how quality-focused cuisine reflects the island’s history and landscape.
Evidence suggests certain dietary patterns containing specific nutrients can reduce symptoms of some of the most common mental health disorders. RDs play an important role in treating clients and ...
Americans are voracious consumers of sugar and often are looking for that next decadent, scrumptious treat to satisfy their sweet tooth. According to the American Heart Association, US adults consume ...
Making sense of dietary supplements (DS) and knowing how and when to recommend them can be a complicated matter for all dietitians. Navigating loose regulatory standards, proper dosing guidelines, and ...
Despite being a conditionally essential nutrient, carnitine is a topic of uncertainty, even controversy, because it’s like a coin with two sides, and those sides can appear to be in direct conflict ...
Deciding what to make for dinner or an afternoon snack can be a challenge at the best of times but toss confusion about processed and ultraprocessed foods into the mix, and the question of what to put ...
Today’s Dietitian speaks with nutrition professionals to distinguish truth from error. There was a time when fat was the most-maligned macronutrient. Now ...
Lectins, a type of protein found in most plants, have come under fire in the past several years as the authors of many popular fad diets have suggested they cause negative health effects such as ...
According to a consumer survey, Public Perceptions of Dietary Sweeteners published in 2023 by the International Food Information Council, 28% of Americans report regularly and intentionally using low- ...
Metabolism encompasses the mechanisms by which the body transforms what people consume into energy to fuel all the body’s functions, producing catabolism, the degradation of molecules, and anabolism, ...
A few decades ago, people may not have been familiar with fermented foods. But they’ve seen significant growth in recent years, and demand doesn’t seem to be slowing down. Fermented foods saw an ...