A new study finds that half of daily calories US adults consume are from from junk food, and it's hardly a surprise, given our food environment
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A new study finds that a common food additive, ubiquitous in processed foods, changes the microbiome and the gut of healthy people
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A new study looks at the diets of American kids and finds that two thirds of calories now come from highly-processed foods. If we changed just that, childhood obesity could be cut by half.
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A famous actor’s death is a stark reminder of colon cancer’s rising rates among younger people; lifestyle choices can reduce that risk
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Whether it's stress, boredom, the proximity of the fridge, the ready-for-Zoom loose clothes, food shortages, or comfort seeking, the coronavirus crisis got many of us worried about overeating
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School food isn't ideal, but the pandemic, and with it, shuttered schools, makes things worse, hurting those most at risk of poor diets, weight gain and obesity.
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Highly processed foods make up half the caloric intake of the average American; a new study finds that these foods are associated with a 30 percent higher risk of early death.
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If you’re looking for an easy to follow, realistic, positive, healthy living goal for 2018, try eating real. I’m not suggesting you make all your food from scratch. It would also be highly impractical to mill your own wheat, or press your own oil. Just try to avoid the highly processed stuff.
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Chocolate, long associated with indulgence, romance and guilty pleasures has become a health food. Is the transformation deserved?
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Eating after 8pm has been associated with weight gain. But what if 8pm is the middle of your day? Many of today’s teens and college-aged kids live in social jetlag.
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Drinking a lot of sweet drinks – made with sugar or with non-caloric sweeteners – is clearly not healthy. But one can still argue that there are shades of unhealthy, and that the proof tying diet soda with diabetes is weaker than the evidence linking full calorie drinks to this disease.
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New research helps explain why diet soda hasn’t yielded the expected weight loss. Even if we can’t be sure that diet soda directly causes obesity and metabolic syndrome, it’s fair to say thi experiment isn’t going too well.
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What do the fit, beautiful music celebrities whom our teens admire eat and drink? According to the ads they help make it’s junk food and sugary drinks that got them into the great shape they’re in.
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Social media spreads ideas, behaviors and habits. Brands are already paying attention and capitalizing on the word-of-mouth or, more accurately, the selfies, emojis and hashtags by teens as brand ambassadors.
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