What factor most dictates food choices: cost, nutritional concerns, taste, family food preference or time? Even in this era of health concerns and hectic family schedules, taste swamps the competition, says Laura Sims, professor...

To pinpoint the origins of childhood obesity, it helps to understand how food preferences and attitudes are established with age. Children's responses to food are based initially on their bodies' needs but are later...

...Siberia in Russia to northern Minnesota, "but it's not as humid." She has found not only the language, but the food preferences and traditions different here. In Russia, people drink a lot more tea and eat a lot more soups, she said. "I...

...birds, mammals and fish. In addition, she aced a test of 15 questions about the species' life history, habitat, food preferences, etc. All of this might someday come in handy if Takasaki follows her dream to one day open a pet hotel. Even...