Once a staple of American kitchens, iodized salt virtually eliminated iodine deficiency in the U.S. Now, as home cooks embrace kosher salt and other specialty varieties, nutrition experts say the long...

Dr. Monica Serrano-Gonzalez of the Warren Alpert Medical School discussed her research on the risks of iodine deficiency and what people can do about it.

This study examines the effects of early-life iodine deficiency on health and educational outcomes following the war-induced disruption of Ethiopia’s salt iodization programme in the late 1990s. Using...

A banal take with serious consequences

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The Mamdani Administration’s Pilot Faces Structural Dangers That Have Nothing To Do With Whether Public Groceries Are A Good Idea.

Recorded by Chad Finer Upstairs at Dan &Whit's Feb 15, 2026

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How affordable are the new dietary guidelines? Economists and nutrition experts weigh in.

Identifying low-cost options for a healthy diet is an essential step towards allowing all people to meet their nutritional needs. This study measures the frontiers of the lowest available cost and gre...

Overview On November, 20, 2025, Duke’s World Food Policy Center hosted an in-depth webinar on a major policy shift by the US Department of Agriculture:…

Airports and cities may face delays and rising costs, but cruise ships keep breaking records. They show what can still be built.

How do you prepare 100,000 meals at sea?

Governments use something called a ‘least cost diet’ to monitor food access, inform policy discussions, and target interventions to improve food security and nutrition. So, what is the least cost diet...

A healthy, nutritious diet is much more expensive than a calorie sufficient one.

Background: Few data have assessed trends in diet quality among U.S. adults. Objective: To evaluate trends in diet quality by race, ethnicity, and socioeconomic disadvantage. Design: Repeated cross-se...

A rise in produce prices could be a sign of higher costs to come as President Trump’s tariffs on imported food become more significant.

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A rise in produce prices could be a sign of higher costs to come as President Trump’s tariffs on imported food become more significant.

“Food Intelligence dispels many popular myths we have about weight loss and breaks down the real drivers of the obesity crisis based on decades of research. I really hope everyone gets a chance to...

The government has been measuring food insecurity since the mid-1990s but now says the report has become “overly politicized.”

Researchers increasingly use aggregated search data from Google Trends to study a wide range of phenomena. Although this new data source possesses som…

Veganism didn’t become less good for us or the planet, so what changed?

I had a painful experience at my local CVS this morning. I went in to get my flu shot and saw a pregnant woman standing at the pharmacy counter. She asked for last year’s formulation of the COVID-1…

The wholesale-price spike may eventually hike prices for shoppers, experts said.

About a quarter of the 3.3% price increase recorded by this month’s producer price index was driven by a spike in wholesale prices for veggies.

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This report documents how high food price inflation is associated with increases in food insecurity and child malnutrition.

This report documents how high food price inflation is associated with increases in food insecurity and child malnutrition.