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By Tamar Haspel When food manufacturers decide what to put on labels, they have one goal: to get you to buy the food. And the history of Americans’ diets can be read in the history of food labels. Whatever the villain du jour is, we get labels about its absence: fat,...
By Erik Vance Getting a filling at the dentist can be painful, expensive and generally miserable. A crown or a root canal is even worse. Still, you do it because your dentist says you should. But in a surprising number of cases, you might have another choice. Where...
By Michael J. Coren There’s protein water, protein beer, protein marshmallows. Millions follow “meatfluencers” on TikTok. If you’re hungry for dessert, God bless you, a protein Pop-Tart will sustain you with 10 grams of protein alongside red No. 40. Behind this...
By Ana Cristina Alvarado Just as many westerners have turned to alternative remedies to seek cures for whatever ails them, Ecuadorians, too, have begun to reconsider ancestral medicine in light of changing attitudes. Indigenous caregivers and midwifes are coming out...
By Hannah Singleton A few bites of a pastry can deliver as many calories as an entire plate of chicken, vegetables, and starch, while taking a fraction of the time to eat. That mismatch points to a blind spot in how weight loss has long been understood. For decades,...
By Trisha Pasricha, MD When it comes to plastic-related particles and chemicals, people often feel helpless and overwhelmed. Plastic contamination feels so pervasive, inevitable and frustrating, especially since the research is limited on how to reduce your exposure....
By Paula Span Enough time had passed since the patient’s previous colonoscopy that she met the criteria to undergo another, said Dr. Steven Itzkowitz, a gastroenterologist at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. She was in “reasonably good health,”...
By Ariana Eunjung Cha They arrive in cheerful bottles with names that sound like promises — Daily Brain Boost, Brain Drive, Brain guard+. And Americans, in turn, spend billions of dollars each year chasing the idea of a sharper mind. This is the logic of the moment:...
Amsterdam, a city known for its tolerance of some drugs and sex work, has become the first capital city in the world to ban meat and fossil fuels from public advertisements. The effort aims to discourage people from spending money on products linked to high carbon...
By Simar Bajaj Hearty, basic and cheap, oats have been eaten for centuries. And now, they’re a staple of wellness culture — for good reason. Oats are a “balanced food” with a good amount of protein, relatively little fat and a variety of vitamins and minerals, said...
By Mark A. Mahoney, Ph.D., R.D.N. The necessity of understanding how to maintain good hydration is an important one for maintaining good health and needs to be reiterated due to the importance of adequate hydration for our well-being and health. A lot of misleading...
By Panashe Matemba-Mutasa At 80, Leni Siegel’s rich life is visible throughout the Berkeley home she’s lived in for 20 years — in family photos, old theater programs from performances she attended and books she’s collected over the years. Now, feeling overwhelmed by...
By Stacey Colino If you’ve noticed that having a cocktail or two packs a bigger punch now than it did when you were younger, it’s not your imagination. Many people don’t realize that both men and women develop an increased sensitivity and a decreased tolerance to...
By Ariana Eunjung Cha The young woman described to a jury what it was like to lose control of her life to social media. She began as a child, she said, and over time the habit expanded to fill nearly every available hour — late nights bleeding into early mornings,...
By Tammy LaGorce After an eight-year relationship ended in 2021, Chloe Bow started imagining what life might look like if she gave up on marriage. Ms. Bow, now 33, of Toronto, spent much of her 20s living with a boyfriend who became her fiancé. Then, during the...
By Advisory Board staff In 2014, Ezekiel Emanuel — a prominent health policy expert, medical ethicist, and oncologist — wrote an infamous article in The Atlantic called "Why I Hope to Die at 75." Now, just seven years from his 75th birthday, Emanuel speaks with The...
By Trisha Pasricha, MD Science has finally settled the age-old debate of whose farts smell worse — men or women. But to appreciate the answer, you need to understand how researchers figured it out. The methodology alone deserves an award. The man responsible is Dr....
By Luisa Torres As we age, the risk of falling increases and becomes increasingly perilous. A fall can be a real health setback for a frail, elderly person. And, more older adults are dying from falls today than 20 years ago. A recent study showed that more than...
By Mark A. Mahoney, Ph.D., R.D.N. As we draw nearer to the end of National Nutrition Month consider some of the following ways to help improve our nutritional intake as we age. Healthy eating is recommended throughout life, but as we age certain factors can affect our...
By Gina Kolata Your potential life span is written in your genes, according to a new study. You can lengthen it a bit with a healthy lifestyle. But if your genetic potential is to live to be 80, for example, it is unlikely that anything you do will push your age at...
