There’s no shortage of spectacularly bad advice about dietary fat these days. None quite compares to the Soap Diet — a theory I involuntarily tested decades ago, courtesy of my mother. It's even worse ...

On this episode of Science Dispatch, we take a look at the radiation oncology experience from the perspective of a patient (and radiation expert) who endured 28 mornings of this common but ...

New York City’s nation-leading cigarette taxes have pushed pack prices into the $14 range—and pushed consumers into the black ...

Food has always carried meaning, but in contemporary nutrition culture, it is increasingly treated as a moral test. In the unqualified world of wellness and nutrition influencers, foods are no longer ...

Constipation is often treated as a simple plumbing problem, too little movement, too much delay. But emerging research ...

I’ve reached the point in my life where my memory is slipping a bit. You know — getting on a bus with a movie ticket, finding my sneakers in the freezer, or driving on the left side of the road.

Metabolic Health is your body's internal systems: blood sugar levels, blood pressure, lipids, and inflammation. Poor metabolic health can drive up insulin resistance, a main culprit of heart disease, ...

What do Sichuanese chefs shrugging at The French Laundry, a meticulously dispatched bonito, a mountain of DoorDash detritus, and the psychic hum of “food noise” have in common? They all expose how ...

Obviously, there was no era in which Americans were healthier than now, except in a romanticized imagination. Is there really ...

A failed private lawsuit accusing major food companies of engineering addictive food has been resurrected by San Francisco’s city attorney, recasting contested nutrition science as a public nuisance.

One of the universal challenges in human knowledge is translating what is deeply felt and implicitly understood into ...