Science & Medicine
Fourteen percent of U.S. preschoolers are overweight.
Nov. 12, 2007
Revised Recommended Dietary Allowance figures, the nutritional vitamin and mineral yardsticks on which a healthful diet is based, will not be released as expected now or in the near future.
Oct. 31, 1985
She called her unique laboratory the Penthouse.
Sept. 10, 2001
Medicine: Garlic ranks as a popular remedy but controversy lingers over funding of research at Newport Beach meeting.
Nov. 17, 1998
Since more Americans are living longer, does the standard advice about what to eat still hold true?
Feb. 9, 1992
California
Ruth Lois Huenemann, a UC Berkeley nutrition expert whose long-term studies on children and teenagers expanded the understanding of obesity and its origins, died of natural causes Aug. 19 at her home in Oakland.
Sept. 1, 2005
People don’t have time to wait for conclusive information about nutrition and cancer, says an advocacy group that has issued six dietary recommendations to help prevent cancer.
June 10, 2014
Opinion
A spectacular case of sloppy science came crashing to a close last month.
Oct. 9, 2018
Stanley N.
April 17, 1986
World & Nation
Charles Glen King, who discovered Vitamin C when he separated it from the juice of lemons in 1932, has died of heart failure at the age of 91.
Jan. 27, 1988