Latest Nutrition Stories
Cutting back on beef can lengthen your lifespan, but by how much?
The FDA knows expiration dates are confusing, so they’re changing them
Processed food really does make you gain weight
Find the real breakfast of champions with this helpful chart
You probably need more vitamins, but pills won’t cut it
These charts will help you visualize just how unhealthy diets are around the world
The truth about the nut-brain connection
Taxing soda would help make kids healthier
The weirdest things we learned this week: animals used to stand trial and apples kept doctors from killing you
Healthy food prescriptions could save billions in healthcare costs
Unscrambling the health effects of eggs
Sloppy calorie counting can still help you lose weight
Nuts are full of fat and calories—and you should probably eat more of them
Here’s why ultra-processed foods are so bad for your health
Fruit juices have potentially dangerous levels of lead and arsenic
The weirdest things we learned this week: the sweetest-smelling butts, flaming birds, and 40 barrels of coke
Here’s a planet-friendly diet that’s not vegan
Junk food ads disproportionally target black and Hispanic kids over white kids
What makes popcorn pop?
A week of holiday junk food could derail your gut microbiome—but there’s hope
How to eat vegetables this winter without increasing your carbon footprint
Five diets that could be deadly
Instant soup sends a shocking number of kids to the hospital
The FDA’s updated nutrition labels could improve your health—if you know how to read them
The truth about organic food and cancer
The ‘all-natural’ label on your LaCroix is meaningless, but that doesn’t mean the seltzer is bad for you
You should check how much sugar your ‘healthy’ yogurt really has
When you should eat breakfast—and when you can probably skip it
Low-carb diets lose their benefits when you go hard on animal products
Coconut oil is the latest reminder that there’s no such thing as a ‘superfood’
E. coli doesn’t just give you food poisoning—it can also help you get essential nutrients
Freaking out about heavy metals in your food? Here’s what you should know
Can food have negative calories?
Most of your sodium isn’t coming from your salt shaker
The weirdest things we learned this week: skin-peeling soup, secret drug toilets, and a chlorinated ocean
Why chocolate milk is a great post-workout snack (but maybe not the best)
Here’s how much protein you really need
Please do not try to survive on an all-meat diet
The case for full-fat yogurt
Ancient hunter-gatherers didn’t all eat paleo
New tech could soon let you test whether your lettuce carries E. coli
Why your brain loves mac and cheese more than macaroni or cheese alone
Everything you need to know about added sugars (and how to avoid them)
A nutritionist’s guide to eating junk food
What is keto flu, and how can I make it stop?
Carbon emissions are sucking the nutrition out of our food
There are only 13 actual vitamins, and you’ll die without them
A few simple habits can tack some extra years onto your lifespan
Pregnant people get a lot of grief for the unhealthy habits we all share
We’re so close with dogs, even our poop looks similar
Everything you never wanted to know about artificial sweeteners
Restaurants could save a lot of dough by letting sick employees stay home
Intermittent fasting can help you lose weight. But can it make you live longer?
Worried pasta will make you fat? Spaghettaboutit.
They don’t make baby poop like they did in 1926, that’s for sure. Here’s why scientists care.
The world’s strongest athletes aren’t shredded and for good reason
Your weight affects how long you live—but it’s extremely complicated
This pill could help you figure out why you’re always farting
What to do if your dog eats your Christmas chocolates
Fruits and vegetables could save your life—but not from any one disease.
Greek yogurt creates a ton of wheyst—but wheyt! There may be a whey forward for all that whey.
It might be possible to remodel a baby’s microbiome
Does apple cider vinegar actually do anything?
Here’s how scientists are tricking you into eating your veggies
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