Africa's rich diversity in traditional diets offers unique opportunities to gain valuable insights into how food influences health.' De Mast finds it remarkable how significant the effects of diet ...

Our study highlights the benefits of these traditional food products for inflammation and metabolic processes in the body. At the same time, we show how harmful an unhealthy Western diet can be.

In Africa, fermented foods hold great cultural significance and health benefits, yet this topic has not been thoroughly researched. Foods are mostly fermented at home and trends vary by region.

The U.S. global food security envoy is pushing to bring back traditional African crops that American policies helped to sideline. By Somini Sengupta Cary Fowler once helped build an Arctic vault ...

The program, announced by the US State Department together with the United Nations’s Food and Agriculture Organization and the African Union on Wednesday, will seek to identify crops in Africa ...

A switch of just two weeks from a traditional African diet to a Western diet causes inflammation, reduces the immune response to pathogens, and activates processes associated with lifestyle ...