nutrition

The Double Up Food Bucks program offers a dollar-for-dollar match on purchases of fresh produce for SNAP recipients. It just launched at the Syracuse Cooperative Market and Brady Market. There's a 20-dollar-a-day limit, but advocates say it can lead to more fruits and vegetables, and better health.

COVID-19 didn’t so much create new issues for Central New Yorker experiencing poverty, but instead exacerbated existing inequalities. That’s according to…

Many of our routines are changed because of the restrictions caused by the Coronavirus … and those changes can threaten our health. We've previously told…

In our current world of health trends and fad diets, it can be difficult to separate out fact from fiction. In the case of dietary supplements, there…

Increasingly public schools have to do far more for children than teach reading, math and other subjects. They’ve become the first line of defense against…

A milestone in the study of nutrition in the U-S is being celebrated here in Central New York. Falk College at Syracuse University begins a 2-day seminar…

An expansion in the eligibility of federal food benefits could help local families and elderly. It might also boost the local economy – if people take…

Central New Yorkers who take supplements to improve their health might be wondering who to believe and what to take, after major retailers were targeted…