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At ADA-FNCE last week, I had my metabolic rate measured at the Korr Medical Technologies booth. (I have no connection with them.)  I’ve always wanted to see my metabolism numbers and so I loved getting the report, but as you can see, the experience was an encounter of the dental kind.  Was the report worth the bother?  How did the results compare with the standard calculations?

Here’s a scary thought:  Honeybees are disappearing at an alarming rate and nobody knows why.  You are personally affected because bees are the glue that holds modern agriculture together.  Albert Einstein is reputed to have said, “If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would only have four years of life left.”  Yikes!

Simply put, the term “negative calories” refers to food that takes more calories to process than it delivers.  Take celery, the usual example of a “negative calorie” food.  It wastes its calories first with mastication, then intestinal churning, only to have the fibers slip out the back door. 

The FDA has a problem.  No, really, they want your help.  There has been a sharp decline in the number of people reading food labels, and they want you to tell them why.

"Could a soda tax help curb obesity?" President Obama has said it's worth considering, and others are weighing in...

This is today's trending topic on our new Facebook Fan Page, which we have recently revamped, and which has already attracted more than 1,500 of our most active members - check out what everyone is saying today about the "soda tax." We will be also using our Fan Page to launch contests with prizes, conduct surveys about new tools and functionality, and to share braking news and updates

YOU have been challenged by the American Heart Association to limit your intake of added sugar.  

Last month, they issued a recommendation daring women to limit added sugar to 6 teaspoons a day.  Men can have 9 because they are usually bigger.  For women, that’s 100 calories of added sugar and for men, it’s 150 calories a day.

Dare I say - unless you’ve been hiding under a rock for 20 years - you have tried SmartFood.  SmartFood White Cheddar Cheese Flavored Popcorn is a vending machine staple eaten by everyone down on the cube farm.  But, have you tried SmartFood lately, or do you wonder about its nutritional value?

Southern food - fresh and simple - is enjoyed throughout the United States.  It's rich, filling and aromatic, but not so healthy because of the fat.  Buttered, smothered, battered, and fried adds extra calories that lead to weight gain, but Southern food can be make healthier without surrendering that down-home taste.

I recently heard three elementary school teachers talking about what kids bring for lunch.  They said the lunch boxes were often filled with five or six  “snack packs” - individually packaged single-servings of snack-type foods.  There might be pudding, a juice box, granola bar, snack cake, chips, or something else of that ilk.  The kids, it seemed, carried several options to eat, trade, or toss away.

Our goal for today is to find a single-serve, ready-to-eat, microwavable soup that needs no refrigeration, and is healthy and, most of all, is tasty too. With hundreds of dry soups on the market it was hard to make a choice, but our tasters chose to review two of the twelve varieties of Fantastic Foods Soup Cups.

Have nutrition symbols and scores appeared in your supermarket?  They show up as shelf-tags and on-pack symbols.  Supermarket chains around the country have developed “nutrient profiling systems” to help consumers identify healthy foods.  But do they actually help, confuse, or reach the consumer at all?

Does Cheerios, or does it not, lower cholesterol levels?  Well, maybe, but don’t go making claims on the box.  That’s what the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) told General Mills three months ago when they warned them to stop making specific cholesterol-lowering claims on the Cheerios package and website.

It's a Food... It's a Drug... It's an Energy Shot! You’ve seen the vials at the checkout counter at the convenience store.  Energy shots are the hottest selling “beverage” in America.

Energy shots are a 2-ounce jolt of caffeine, along with a bunch of B-vitamins, the amino acid, taurine, and a few herbs

Sensa crystals help you to eat less by tricking your brain into feeling full.  Simply sprinkle Sensa on your food, sniff before eating, and chew slowly to let the flavor permeate.  In a study of 1,436 participants who sprinkled Sensa on everything they ate for six months, the average weight loss was 30.5 lbs

Picture those strange strawberries in the box of breakfast cereal or a brick of dehydrated space ice cream. Several manufacturers are marketing freeze-dried fruits as a snack alternative. They hope freeze-dried fruit will become a standard lunch box item.