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How and what we eat matters at the personal and policy level. STAT covers research and heated debates about nutrition, diet, food as medicine, obesity, food deserts, food security, and more. STAT reporters also uncover the powerful and often hidden commercial interests that influence the products we consume.

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Matt's Take Matthew Herper

A study says intermittent fasting is making people drop dead. Oh, come on

Politics Nicholas Florko

STAT Plus: Why won’t Medicare deliver food to sick seniors, if it could get them healthy?

Health Annalisa Merelli

Niacin has long been a public health darling. But an excess could be bad for the heart, study suggests

Health Elizabeth Cooney

STAT Plus: A Harvard course seeks to put food on the table in medical education

First Opinion Anika Nayak, Nisha Patel, and Disha Narang

People with food insecurity deserve better nutrition education

First Opinion Marcella Alsan, John Cawley, and Joseph Doyle

Does food as medicine help patients with diabetes? Here’s what a new clinical trial says

Health Anika Nayak and Elizabeth Cooney

At a hospital’s teaching kitchen, patients get a taste of food as medicine

Politics John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: Sanders blames food companies for diabetes epidemic

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Health Anika Nayak

Fresh produce access boosts health outcomes among diabetes patients and those on Medicaid in recent studies

Politics John Wilkerson

STAT Plus: FDA’s Califf wants to get the public as excited about life expectancy as cures

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Health Nicholas Florko

STAT Plus: A 50-year battle over one additive highlights FDA’s challenges with food safety

Health Nicholas Florko

Dairy farmers are running out of chances to kill the terms ‘oat milk’ and ‘soy milk’

Health Wudan Yan

In North Carolina, a radical experiment targets social determinants of health with fresh produce and safe housing

Health Nicholas Florko

Food companies to regulators: Please don’t worry about ultra-processed anything

Exclusive Nicholas Florko

The food industry has tried to stack a key nutrition policy panel with its preferred experts, documents show

First Opinion Danielle Meinert

I cured my ARFID with psilocybin. I shouldn’t have needed to self-treat it

Health Nicholas Florko

Kellogg’s is going to war over Mexico’s nutrition label rules. A similar fight is coming to the U.S.

Health Nicholas Florko

Patient advocates warn FDA proposal on salt intake could do fatal harm to people with kidney disease

First Opinion Melissa Weintraub

I’m a dentist. I’m begging people not to give up on aspartame

Health Isabella Cueto

Celiac study examines precisely how gluten triggers injury to intestine

First Opinion Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz

Why the aspartame in Diet Coke and Coke Zero probably isn’t worth worrying about

Health Nicholas Florko

STAT Plus: The FDA is testing new nutrition labels on the front of food packages

First Opinion Megan Sandel and Charlotte Bruce

Rolling back SNAP benefits puts millions of children at risk of hunger and long-term health consequences

Politics Nicholas Florko

STAT Plus: ‘Leave the chocolate milk out of this’: School cooks, parents, kids push back on USDA effort to make lunches healthier

Health Nicholas Florko

STAT Plus: Cereal, pasta, and other food companies blast the FDA for a too-strict definition of ‘healthy’

Politics Nicholas Florko

STAT Plus: Can food be medicine? Will insurers cover it? And other big questions about a new health movement

Health Angus Chen

STAT Plus: Bone marrow transplant patients could be spared from ‘bland’ diet, study finds

First Opinion Bill Frist and Dariush Mozaffarian

Congress: Close the gap between funding for nutrition research and the toll diet-related disease takes on Americans

First Opinion Podcast Patrick Skerrett

Listen: What makes food ‘healthy’ and why we don’t prioritize nutrition