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How and what we eat matters at the personal and policy level. STAT covers research and heated debates about nutrition, diet, food as medicine, obesity, food deserts, food security, and more. STAT reporters also uncover the powerful and often hidden commercial interests that influence the products we consume.

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Health Leah Samuel

Pregnant women don’t need prenatal multivitamins, study concludes

First Opinion Gary Taubes

How a ‘fatally, tragically flawed’ paradigm has derailed the science of obesity

First Opinion Stephen Lamb

Why we need mandatory labeling of GMO products

First Opinion Dylan MacKay

Hey, Hippocrates: Food isn’t medicine. It’s just food

Health Usha Lee McFarling

Kale crackers and hibiscus tea: My five days on a ‘fasting diet’

Business Rebecca Robbins

Watch: Genetic tests promised to help me achieve peak fitness. What I got was a fiasco

Health Megan Thielking

Can you stretch your stomach to eat more at Thanksgiving?

Health Associated Press

Just how much sugar do Americans consume? It’s complicated

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Health Angus Chen

STAT Plus: Bone marrow transplant patients could be spared from ‘bland’ diet, study finds

First Opinion Bill Frist and Dariush Mozaffarian

Congress: Close the gap between funding for nutrition research and the toll diet-related disease takes on Americans

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First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: What makes food ‘healthy’ and why we don’t prioritize nutrition

First Opinion Allison Maria Lacko, Allison Bovell-Ammon and Richard Sheward

Ensuring food security and health beyond the Covid-19 public health emergency

Health Isabella Cueto

Coffee? Keto? Olive Oil? New tool surfaces science behind diet and habits

First Opinion Marion Nestle

FDA’s plan to define ‘healthy’ for food packaging: Better than the existing labeling anarchy, but do we really need it?

Politics Ambar Castillo

STAT Plus: FDA proposes new rules for which foods can be called ‘healthy’

First Opinion Stephanie Rogus and Peter G. Lurie

The White House has a major chance to improve coordination of federal nutrition efforts

First Opinion Dariush Mozaffarian and David B. Waters

‘Food is medicine’ interventions should be the main course at White House nutrition conference

First Opinion Bill Frist, Jerome M. Adams and Jerold Mande

Commissioner Califf needs to put the F back in FDA

First Opinion Fatima Cody Stanford and Kelly Copes-Anderson

Recognizing obesity as a disease, not a choice, is a step toward health equity

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: A reporter and a reader on rethinking why people gain weight

First Opinion Christina Severin and Erin McAleer

Smoothing the path to fighting food insecurity

First Opinion Nicholas Norwitz

A ketogenic diet brought me back to life. Will believing in its effectiveness make me a pariah in medical school?

First Opinion Vanita Rahman and Matthew Rees

Make America healthy again by paying more attention to nutrition

First Opinion Michael F. Jacobson

The quiet pandemic caused by consuming too much salt

First Opinion Michelle D. Holmes

Black lives depend on the U.S. dietary guidelines. Don’t water them down

First Opinion Leslie Mikkelsen

Farmers markets provide healthy food and support local economies. Keep them open during Covid-19 lockdowns

First Opinion Stephanie Ettinger de Cuba, Diana B. Cutts and Allison Bovell-Ammon

Cutting 700,000 Americans from SNAP will increase health costs

In the Lab Shraddha Chakradhar

To tackle childhood malnutrition, researchers turn to the microbiome

First Opinion David B. Waters

Medically tailored meals save lives. Health plans should cover their cost

Health Associated Press

U.S. preschoolers growing less obese, data show, in latest sign of improvement

Health Associated Press

CVS announces further expansion into health care services

Health Associated Press

Less fat, more fruit may cut risk of dying of breast cancer

First Opinion Nicola Guess and Ethan J. Weiss

Is tribalism undermining objectivity about low-carb, high-fat diets?