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What If You Only Drank Soda?
The effect that pop has on your body!
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McD's salad has more calories than a Big Mac
McDonald's may be on a health kick, but some of its nutrient-enhanced meals are very caloric, according to CBC Business News.
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High-cholesterol diet, eating eggs do not increase risk of heart attack, not even in persons genetically predisposed, study finds
A new study shows that a relatively high intake of dietary cholesterol, or eating one egg every day, are not associated with an elevated risk of incident coronary heart disease. Furthermore, no association was found among those with the APOE4 phenotype, which affects cholesterol metabolism and is common among the Finnish population. In the majority of population, dietary cholesterol affects serum cholesterol levels only a little, and few studies have linked the intake of dietary cholesterol to...
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Study finds a stark difference between organic, non-organic meat and milk
It’s long been a contentious debate: Is organic food really any better for you than non-organic food? Well, now those who are proponents of organic eating may have some proof—by way of the largest study of its kind to date.
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Why the Science of Salt is as Polarized as Politics
To salt or not to salt is a question most humans think about at least a few times a day, even if we remain puzzled over the health effects.
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Strokes on the Rise Among Younger Adults
Fewer people are having strokes now than decades ago. But that improvement seems to be mostly among the elderly. Young people are actually having more strokes, partly because of the rise in obesity.
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Is Organic More Nutritious? New Study Adds To The Evidence
It's often a split-second decision. You're in the produce aisle, and those organic apples on display look nice. You like the idea of organic — but they're a few bucks extra. Ditto for the organic milk and meat. Do you splurge? Or do you ask yourself: What am I really getting from organic? Scientists have been trying to answer this question. And the results of a huge new meta-analysis published this week in the British Journal...
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Breakfast. Take it. Or leave it.
One of the things that horrifies my friends is that I don’t eat breakfast. I’m just not hungry in the morning. A cup of coffee, and that’s all I need until lunch. I’ve been that way for decades. This means that I’m subjected to periodic lectures on how breakfast is “the most important meal of the day”. Yeah, that’s a myth. It’s also the topic of this week’s Healthcare Triage.
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This could be the food of the future—if you can handle it
It's an evening of entomology—cooking, eating, and trying to understand an insect diet.
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More Than Half of All Calories Eaten in America Now Come from Processed Food
Americans are used to breaking down their foods into different groups—and to plenty of different opinions about just what that breakdown should look like.
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More obese people in the world than underweight, says study
There are now more adults in the world classified as obese than underweight, a major study suggests.
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Shakespeare: The strange way people looked at food in the 16th Century
It may seem a peculiarly 21st Century preoccupation, but people in Shakespeare's England were also obsessed with food, writes Dr Joan Fitzpatrick.
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Do Negative-Calorie Foods Exist?
We’ve all heard the rumor that certain foods provides less calories than it takes to digest. Is this true? Check out this SciShow Quick Question to find out!
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How big government helps big dairy sell milk
For years, we've been told milk is essential. It's not.
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Sugar’s Not Just Bad for You—It’s Bad for Coca-Cola’s Business
Now is not a great time to be in the sugar business. On the health front, Philadelphia is joining the list of cities that want to tax people on sugar-sweetened drinks, and the Food and Drug Administration just approved a new nutrition label that would place more emphasis on calories and added sugars. Meanwhile, sugar has become a volatile commodity: in the past year, prices have tanked over a dozen times before shooting up over 30 percent this month compared to a year ago.
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I Tried a Medieval Diet, And I Didn't Even Get That Drunk
The Regimen Sanitatus Salernum was the Middle Ages' most famous health manual. How does it hold up?
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Soylent Is Healthier Than the Average North American Diet
Food tastes better than Soylent. On that, there is universal agreement. Bland in flavor but audacious in concept, everything else about the beige food replacement is fiercely contested. Foodies decry the decline of experiential eating, cultural critics bemoan the loss of communal mealtimes, and others warn of techno-hubris. There have also been questions about Soylent’s nutritional content, and yet, the company’s proprietary mix is almost certainly an improvement on the average North American diet.
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We subsidize crops we should eat less of, does this fatten us up?
There's a disconnect between what we're told to eat and what crops the U.S. subsidizes. Many critics blame farm policy for promoting bad eating habits. The reality is a lot more complicated.
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Let’s face it — American breakfast is really dessert
Breakfast in America is pretty sweet—literally it contains a bunch of sugar.
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The Deal with Protein
People like to say all kinds of things about protein – like, you need to eat lots of it to build muscle and lose weight. The truth is, the science of protein and how your body uses it is much more complicated than that.
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