nutrition

Attendees at a Child Wellness Summit in Missouri united against child food insecurity as COVID benefits near their end, urging action for vulnerable families.

A growing movement known as "Food is Medicine" has become part of the healthcare field. It's about making the connections between access to nutritious foods and improving health or preventing disease and chronic conditions. But will it catch on in Missouri, where diet-fueled health problems like diabetes and obesity are common?

Today is the last day of a summer nutrition program in Cole and Osage counties, which has provided weekly meal ingredients, a gift certificate and even…

Many health experts say we should eat less salt, but that's not easy. Salt is added to almost everything that we cook or bake. Are we born with a taste for that much salt, or do we just like what we've always eaten? Scientists say it's some of both.