Most Americans overestimate how healthy their diets are; the most accurate are those with poor-quality diets
Such findings can help improve research into diet quality in the future, and give us all some food for thought.
Tag: diet
What does it mean if your poop is green – do you need to see a doctor?
Many different factors can change your stool color, including diet, lifestyle, and health issues.
Shifting to a healthier diet can increase your lifespan by up to a decade
Many of these changes are also eco-friendly and save on cash.
Healthier, more nutritious diets have a lower environmental impact — at least in the UK
Eating better would benefit you and the planet, too.
Eating a hot dog could shave 36 minutes off your lifespan
There's some good news: eating a serving of peanuts adds 25 healthy minutes of life.
Unprocessed plant-based food keeps your heart healthier at any age
Fewer burgers, more broccoli.
Stone-age humans mostly ate meat, then ran out of big animals
When you're all out of McMammoth, you need to start improvising.
Ancient teeth confirm: people have been trading internationally for thousands of years
A banana can teach you much about history.
The food industry is skewing research, but we’re onto them now
Oh, food, don't betray me too!
No-meat diets won’t fix the climate — too many poor countries can’t adopt them
The choice between feeding your family and saving the climate isn’t easy to make -- but it will always go ...
What is tofu and is it a healthy alternative?
Tofu is an excellent source of plant protein. Studies have shown that it has plenty of benefits and it's gradually ...
What is keto: the fat-burning diet
Keto is the fad diet of the decade, but does it really work and is it safe?
A new study looked at how early complex European cultures farmed and ate
They seemed to be doing alright for themselves.
Better diets could save billions in U.S. health care costs
Eating well is good for you and the national budget.
Obesity and undernutrition now come together — over 1 in 3 poor and middle-income countries struggle with both
You can starve on too much food.
Agriculture impacts diets of wild mammals, study shows
Wild mammals living near agriculture fields were found to change their diets.
Earliest evidence of milk consumption comes from Stone Age Britain
I don't know how I could live without cheese.
Change diets to save the tropical forests, researchers say
If the consumption of meat and dairy doesn’t fall, at least one-quarter of the world’s tropical lands could disappear by ...
Grasshoppers, silkworms, giant cicadas are a good source of antioxidants — if you eat them
"In the future, we might also adapt dietary regimens for insect rearing in order to increase their antioxidant content for ...
Some extinct species of crocs were plant-eaters, fossil study reveals
Between three and six such species have existed in the past.