The US faces a national health emergency. Nearly 90% of health care spending goes toward treating chronic disease, much of it linked to diet and lifestyle. More than 70% of American adults are overweight or obese, and nearly 1 in 3 adolescents has prediabetes. In this context, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. and U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins today released the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2025–2030, marking the most significant reset of federal nutrition policy in decades. The new Guidelines deliver a clear, common-sense message to the American people: eat real food.
The Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study 2016 (GBD 2016) remains the most comprehensive effort to conduct a population-level
After 3 years of research work, the final conference of the European Union project Optifel was held on the 1st of February 2017, in