When food consumes you: Taking eating to extremes
How do you feel after you eat? Satisfied? Too full? Or maybe even guilty?
Being too focused on food can sometimes turn into an eating...
Counting carbs? Understanding glycemic index and glycemic load
You’ve probably heard of glycemic index and glycemic load.
Some studies suggest that sticking to foods with a low glycemic index may help prevent diabetes, cardiovascular disease and...
Vegetarian diet quality can affect mental health
Scientists from Bond University found not all vegan and vegetarian diets are healthy—and one consequence of a low-quality plant-based diet could be poorer mental...
Healthy plant-based diet may help lower diabetes risk
Scientists from Harvard found that the consumption of healthy plant-based foods, including fruits, vegetables, nuts, coffee, and legumes, is linked to a lower risk...
How leftovers mess with your eating and exercise
Scientists from the University of Michigan found that Leftovers may be throwing off your sense of how much you’ve actually eaten and how much...
Diet soda drinkers have lower colon cancer death risk
Scientists from Yale found an association between drinking artificially sweetened beverages and a much lower risk of colon cancer recurrence and cancer death.
They say...
5 things to know about probiotics
Probiotics are live microorganisms (e.g., bacteria) that are either the same as or similar to microorganisms found naturally in the human body and may...
What vitamin D can do to your health, according to science
Vitamin D is both a nutrient we eat and a hormone our bodies make.
It is a fat-soluble vitamin that has long been known to...
Black pepper: healthy or not?
Everybody knows that consuming too much salt is bad for your health.
But nobody ever mentions the potential impact of the other condiment in the...
Avocados can support a heart-healthy diet, study shows
Scientists from Harvard found that monounsaturated fats, like avocados and nuts, can be good for the heart.
The research is published in the Journal of the...