With the flip of a calendar year often comes the resolution to be the best new version of ourselves. With this fresh start, we promise that we’ll be better, do better, cut things out and swear things off. The majority of people’s resolutions revolve around physical and mental health, finances and losing weight, but these typically last only two to four months. Instead of cutting things out, research has shown that focusing on adding things in can make small changes […]

Customers queue up at Star Market with their shopping for New Years Eve celebrations, Cambridge, … [+] Massachusetts, USA, 28th December 1977. (Photo by Barbara Alper/Getty Images) Getty Images This is the 30th annual The Lempert Report Trend Forecast; its focus is on the most important issues that the retail and food industries face. Our grocery and CPG leaders are confronting uncertainties. Consumers have witnessed supply chain shock, food inflation, out of stocks and most of all – the industry […]

When Dr. Susan Mercado accompanied her adolescent son from the Philippines to Hawaii in late 2020, she noticed a vacancy for a food systems and resiliency director at the Hawaii Public Health Institute. A former undersecretary of the Philippine health department with decades of experience as a medical doctor and public health expert, she got the job. This April, under Mercado’s leadership, HIPHI formed the Food Garden Hui. The informal collective, in partnership with the Council For Native Hawaiian Advancement, […]

A white suburban housewife clad in a lime green leotard finishes her Jane Fonda video workout, rewards herself with a fat-free SnackWell’s devil’s food cookie, then slams back a SlimFast shake before heading to her weekly Weight Watchers meeting. To Gen Z, this scene might read like a comedy sketch, but millennials who came of age in the ‘90s knew that woman. For us, the era’s long-lasting impacts—disordered eating, body dysmorphia, an affinity for packaged foods with purported perks—are the […]

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KFVS) – One thing many across the globe can agree on is their love for food. That’s what gathered SEMO students together on Tuesday in Cape Girardeau as they offered foods from their own countries as part of the International Education Week. Students we talked with said this is a great way to educate others on some of the culture from their home. “I would like for people to see our traditional food, our sweets,” Issra Mrad […]

According to new research from the University of Vermont, the most popular TikTok content related to food, nutrition, and weight fosters a harmful diet culture among teens and young adults, while professional voices are largely absent from the conversation. The study, which was just published in PLOS One, found that TikTok is largely dominated by weight-normative messaging or the notion that a person’s weight is the most significant indicator of their health. The most popular videos on TikTok glorify weight […]

Fat. The word has so many connotations and meanings and it was a main describing factor for me in fourth grade. Just ask Lucas Mahuta. Or Zac Grimes. As I was vilified in grade school, so too is fat, and it has been since the fat-free movement in the 1990s and before. Fat-free, low-fat, no-fat diets abounded, were basically proven to work, but not to achieve the long-term effects they set out to, and were subsequently widely discredited as far […]

7th Annual International Food Fair serves a slice of culture for a cause CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (KWWL) — Cedar Valley community members traveled the world through flavors Oct. 24th, as they tested homemade dishes from several different countries. All the proceeds from the event go towards the Northeast Iowa Food Bank’s “Backpack Program,” which provides food to kids who rely on nearly just school meals for their food. The program gives […]