View in browser March 2016 Editor’s Note: “Marching” Toward Better Health by Matt Raymond What does March mean to you? Basketball “madness”? Weather resembling lions or lambs? Daylight Saving Time? The blooming of cherry blossoms and crocuses? For us, March is National Nutrition Month, a time when food and health take center stage. 3 Tips to “Savor the Flavor of Eating Right” This National Nutrition Month by Liz Sanders, MPH, RD Eating is a big part of our most joyful experiences. But when we look at food only through the lens of the nutrition it provides, we can easily take joy out of the equation. National Nutrition Month reminds us to take time to truly enjoy our meals. Eight Spices from Around the World by Kamilah Guiden As Millennials look for new ways to eat, we realized that spices from around the world would be a hot food trend this year. From Ethiopia to Thailand, France to India, let’s savor a world of flavors. Future of Food, Part II: Serving Up Meat, Over Glass by Megan Meyer, PhD In the second article of our "Future of Food" series, we peer into the glass petri dish and examine in vitro, or “lab-grown," meat. Tip o’ the Mornin’ to You: Don’t Feel Green on St. Patrick’s Day (or Any Day) by Laura Kubitz St. Patrick’s Day might have you seeing green. Green hats. Green food. Green beer. That’s all fine and dandy. But if you are feeling green, that’s a different story. It might be something you ate. News Bites Some Are Sour on New Sweetener Study March Is Caffeine Awareness Month. So What’s the Buzz? U.S. News & World Report Partnership Expands Our Content Reach Calendar of Events a Helpful Resource for International Food Issues Recent Blog Posts March 15, 2016 Spotlight on Eat & Run: Current Carb Controversy March 14, 2016 International Food Information Organizations Unite to Support World Consumer Rights Day March 10, 2016 Celebrate National Frozen Food Month! March 9, 2016 Johnny Appleseed, Legend in His Own Time March 8, 2016 Celebrating Women: International Women's Day Recent FACTS Posts March 14, 2016 How Terrific Is Teff? March 9, 2016 Fast Take: Do Carbs Give You Lung Cancer? Here’s What Folks Are Missing About the Latest Study March 8, 2016 Caffeine Series: Know the Sources and the Amounts to Manage Your “Buzz” [VIDEO] March 7, 2016 Appetite-Increasing Foods: Fact or Fiction? March 3, 2016 No Matter the Food, Ingredients Produced with Biotechnology Are As Safe As "Non-GMO" March 3, 2016 Purdue University Sees What a "Ban" on GMOs Would Look Like [INFOGRAPHIC] Around Town ASN Scientific Sessions & Annual Meeting at Experimental Biology 2016 April 2 – 6, 2016, in San Diego: This year’s annual meeting of the American Society for Nutrition at Experimental Biology will be held April 2 – 6 in San Diego. You can register here. Experimental Biology is an annual meeting comprising more than 14,000 scientists and exhibitors representing six sponsoring societies and multiple guest societies. It features plenary and award lectures, pre-meeting workshops, oral and posters sessions, on-site career services and exhibits of an array of equipment, supplies and publications required for research labs and experimental study. JIFSAN 2016 Annual Symposium April 4 – 5, 2016, in Greenbelt, Md.: The University of Maryland’s Joint Institute for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (JIFSAN) has opened registration for its 2016 Annual Symposium, “Communicating Food Risk in an Era of Social Media.” For more information and to register, click here. Editor: Matt Raymond   •   Contributors to Food Insight include: Ruth Ayres; Andy Benson; Liz Caselli-Mechael; Silvia Dumitrescu; Stephanie Ferguson, CMP; Anthony Flood; Kami Guiden; Laura Kubitz; Geraldine McCann; Megan Meyer, PhD; Kimberly Reed; Sarah Romotsky, RD; Liz Sanders, MPH, RDN; Marianne Smith Edge, MS, RD, LD, FADA, FAND; Kris Sollid, RD; and Matt Tarka. © 2016 International Food Information Council Foundation +1 202.296.6540   •   [log in to unmask]

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