Nutritional Sciences

Nutrition Label

A Nudge Is Better Than a Shove

Tiffany Yang

A GPS guides you in the right direction to your destination. Your car beeps if you set off without putting your seatbelt on. These little nudges provide cognitive and environmental structures that makes certain choices easier.

Rice and Corn

What's With Gluten and Should I Avoid It?

Cassidy Pont

“What is gluten?” Jimmy Kimmel posed this question to pedestrians in Los Angeles ...the majority of people interviewed had no idea. This made for a lot of laughs, but it poses an important question: What is gluten and are their health benefits to avoiding it?

Fasting

How Intermittent Fasting Boosts Health

Amanda Lownes

Should you abstain from eating to improve your health? This idea seems counterintuitive, as we primarily get our macro and micronutrients as well as antioxidants and phytochemicals from food, but new research about intermittent fasting proves otherwise.