Health

Finishing a tough workout always feels good. That is, until a few hours later, when those uncomfortable muscle aches start setting in. This discomfort can linger for days—making easy, everyday tasks a challenge.

Snacking, it turns out, is not all about chips, cookies and chocolate. Dutch millennials often consume nutritious foods, such as fruit, bread and yogurt, between their main meals. This is one of the findings from the doctoral research of Mariëlle de Vaal. Moreover, snacking behavior revolves not only around the food or drink consumed, but also around people’s motives and the situation in which they eat or drink.

A team of researchers from INRAE, Inserm, Sorbonne Paris Nord University, Université Paris Cité and the CNAM has published the first study exploring the association between eating jetlag and the risk of cardiovascular disease. Eating jetlag refers to the difference in the timing of meals between weekdays—when mealtimes are often shaped by work schedules—and weekends or days off. This shift in eating patterns may disrupt the body’s biological rhythms and could have implications for cardiovascular health.

Caregivers play an essential role in helping children maintain adequate nutrition during their cancer treatment. But treatment-related side effects, such as nausea and poor appetite, can make feeding a child particularly challenging. Nutrition priorities also shift throughout treatment and beyond.

The cells of our body are frequently exposed to hazards that can damage them, cause them to malfunction or kill them. Yet they have defense systems that can sometimes be strengthened by small doses of stress, a phenomenon known as hormesis. Scientists are investigating whether food compounds and medicines can harness these protective processes to benefit health.

You finish a workout feeling pleased with yourself. But an hour later, your legs feel heavy, climbing the stairs seems impossible and all you want to do is sit down.

Deep inside the brain, a master clock synchronizes thousands of molecular clocks scattered throughout the body, and together, they anticipate signals such as the rising sun, the coming night and the daily rhythms of life. But Texas A&M University researchers have discovered that the liver is also listening for another signal, one tuned to something much closer to home: the dinner bell.

The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children—better known as WIC—reaches an extraordinary share of American families. An estimated 41% of all U.S. infants participated in the federal nutrition program in fiscal year 2025, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

In the thick of his competitive reelection race in Michigan, Republican Rep. Tom Barrett joined Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at a sprawling 400-acre (162-hectare) apple orchard, farm and winery. They touted Trump administration efforts to improve the American diet, including the removal of some artificial dyes from processed foods.

When we think about metabolism, we usually ask, “What did I eat? How much sugar, fat or protein was in the meal?” But through our research, we have become interested in another question: “When did I eat it?” This matters because metabolism does not work at the same pace throughout the day.