Walking down the supplement aisle in the grocery or health food store can be an overwhelming experience for even the most educated consumer.

Unable to force junk food out of high schools legislatively, a Mesa lawmaker is trying a different approach: Money.

Unable to force junk food out of high schools legislatively, a Mesa lawmaker is trying a different approach: Money.

Are we nuts? We’re eating pecans, cashews, almonds and their crunchy cousins by the bushel, even though we’ve been told for years that nuts are junk food, filled with fat and lacking in any nutritional value. So here’s some news to brighten the day of the nut-crazed among us:

Registration is now open for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona's 2012 Walk On! Challenge. In its seventh year, the program is open to all fifth-grade classrooms in Arizona to support school efforts to teach the importance of good nutrition and physical activity.

Weekend Warriors: If you’re stressed out about what your body’s going to look like when it hits the beach this summer, there are two free fitness and nutrition classes coming up in Gilbert that could be the jump-start you’re looking for to get you headed toward a better bathing-suit body.

Ingleside Middle School’s 50-year-old cafeteria just got an extreme makeover. And it’s all in the name of good health.

The battle to ban junk food in elementary and middle schools still leaves empty calories in the hands of the youngest group of students.

The battle to ban junk food in elementary and middle schools still leaves empty calories in the hands of the youngest group of students.

The state’s long list of banned junk food in schools resembles a grocery list in a health nut’s nightmare. But several East Valley school officials say the new state policy won’t have a major impact because of federal guidelines already in place.

For many kids, summer means freedom — which can result in poor eating habits, said Amy Hall, a Chandler nutritionist who advises parents and their kids on proper nutrition.

It helped energize a truck driver, an offensive tackle for the Denver Broncos and a Chandler general contractor who says he has eliminated afternoon naps from his daily regime.

Dawn Krueger-Sherin MSOM Dip Ac LAc from Acu Pointe Healing Therapies will be conducting a "Nutrition Response Testing" class at 2 p.m., April 2.

Dawn Krueger-Sherin MSOM Dip Ac LAc from Acu Pointe Healing Therapies will be conducting a "Nutrition Response Testing" class at 2 p.m., April 2.

Kyrene releases USDA Child Nutrition Income Guidelines