“Growing up, I was always the smallest child in the class. Not only was I short, but I was also thin, sometimes surprisingly so. Doctors were always scaring my parents by telling them that I was falling behind the “normal” growth chart and encouraging them to make me eat more.”
Food allergies are common, and can be life-threatening. When introducing new foods to infants, many believed that delaying the exposure of certain foods may protect infants from allergic reactions, but more recent research points to the opposite.
Michigan’s current Hepatitis A outbreak is one of the biggest we’ve ever seen in the US. Knowing more about this highly contagious infection is an important step in protecting yourself and your communities.
The FDA has repeatedly issued warnings about the dangers of consuming raw cookie dough. But, with holiday baking in full swing, Professor Zikmund-Fisher considers whether it's really that risky to eat this delicious treat.
Uniform, high-input farms, the hallmark of modern intensive agriculture, have produced an abundance of food unimaginable at the start of the last century. But a healthy diet remains out of reach for billions worldwide.
Much of the hundreds of millions of tons of plastic waste in our oceans is made up of microplastics. They are now turning up everywhere, and we know virtually nothing about their impact on human health.