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I eat beef every day, twice a day,” Kennedy boasted to the hooting crowd. The secretary’s beef-intensive diet, which is ...

The federal government is supporting a project to introduce an Australian-style nutrition test in Switzerland. The aim is to ...

An analysis of the cost for a shopper to follow the U.S. Department of Agriculture's new food pyramid would add more than $1,000 to your grocery bill per year. That can be troublesome as consumers are ...

Even in a best-case scenario, the official federal food pyramid is little more than a lagging indicator of conventional wisdom on nutrition that is easily available from dozens—hundreds!—of other ...

Has the U.S. Department of Agriculture flipped everything you thought you knew about nutrition on its head? At first glance, the newly released dietary guidelines featuring a new food pyramid may seem ...

A new "Inverted Food Pyramid" promoted by U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. places red beef at the top. Scientific research links frequent red meat consumption to ...

The Trump administration is framing the new Dietary Guidelines not as nutrition advice, but as a federal systems strategy – using government procurement, institutional food programs and public ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) first introduced its food pyramid in 1992. The pyramid offered visual guidance on the optimal number of servings of the different food groups. Bread, rice, ...

This story is republished from STAT, the health and medicine news site that’s a partner to the Globe. Sign up for STAT’s free Morning Rounds newsletter here. How easy is it to make a healthy dinner ...