Eating a balanced diet of fruits and veggies staves of brain aging and cognitive decline.
You can now add pasta to your list of healthy diet foods, study suggests
Researchers discovered that pasta didn’t contribute to weight gain or increase in body fat.
Healthy food significantly improves major depression symptoms, new study finds
“You are what you eat.”
In Victorian Britain, poor rural areas had the best diet and health
Perhaps we could learn a thing or two from these old lads.
We owe the shape of our jaws, at least in part, to our ancestors’ love of cheese
Cheese — it literally made your bones what they are.
Modern humans might’ve killed off the Neanderthals by eating all the mammoth
Dibs on the last slice.
Vegetarian diet found to be twice as effective at reducing weight
You might not like it, but that’s just the way things are.
Americans aren’t only wasting the most food — they’re also throwing out the best bits
The worst of both worlds.
Where you shop influences how healthily you eat — but only about half as much as who you are
All food is good. But only some of it is good for you.
What is gluten and why some people have gluten intolerance
Gluten Morgen!
Eating fruit may have given primates their big brains, paving the way for social structures
Chow down.
The Hunger Games: Extreme calorie reduction may increase lifespan
Five days of hunger a month could significantly reduce aging and age-related medical conditions.
Low calorie diet ensures longer and healthier lifespan for monkeys
Researchers just added more weight to the idea that a low-calorie diet extends lifespan.
Cockroach milk: superfood of the future?
What better way to top off your meal?
How the American diet leaves people both overfed and undernourished at the same time
More than half of American’s calories come from ultra-processed foods, a new study finds. The data also indicates close to 90% of total added sugar intake can be traced back to these foodstuffs.
Why most diets don’t work
Universal diets don’t work because “healthy food” varies from person to person, a new study has found. Sadly, only a fraction of all people truly eat healthily these days – we all have our own struggles with food, either because we eat too much, or we eat things that are bad for us, or we don’t have enough money to buy
Low fat diets have a very low impact, decade-long study finds
A meta-analysis of 53 weight-loss studies spanning over several decades and focusing on 68,000 people found that weight loss have a very low impact – if any.
New dietary guidelines will bring fats back
“Fat is bad” seems to be a general rule when concocting dietary guidelines, but fatty foods may be making a comeback for all the right reasons. The latest version of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which is due out later this year will eliminate the upper limit for total dietary fat intake.
Tricking your body to think it’s fasting might help you live longer and healthier
Fasting has been practiced since ancient times as a cleansing process, often accompanied by prayer and periods of seclusion. Famous enlightened historical figures like Jesus or Buddha are prime examples of such ascetic practice. The latter raised fasting to an artform. But fasting needs not be merely associated with spiritualism or religion – it could very well be a great tool to improve your health. Several studies have documented the benefits of fasting, but on the other hand how many of us could go through such excruciating torments, living on water alone for days at a time (some Buddhist monks do it for weeks). After all, low calorie diets are hard enough, let alone not eating altogether. A new study, however, suggests that there might be a way to trick your body it’s in fasting mode, and thus reap the benefits, without actually going overboard.
Obese teens are much more susceptible to junk food commercials, brain scans reveal
It’s no secret that TV food commercials stimulate pleasure and reward centers in the brain, after all advertisers wouldn’t pay big money for them to air if they didn’t entice people to order more. In fact, food advertising has increased dramatically over the past 30 years. Teenagers are exposed on average to 13 food commercials on any given day. At the same time, childhood and adolescent obesity in the US has been on the rise fast and worrisome, so we can’t help but notice the connection. Now, researchers at Dartmouth found overweight teens are disproportionately affected by TV food commercials, as key brain regions that control pleasure, taste and – most surprisingly – the mouth are all much more stimulated than those teens with less body fat. The findings are important since they suggest overweight teens exposed to this kind of environment will experience further difficulties when they try to lose weight. A further insight is that dietary plans should also target subsequent thinking concerning eating food, not just the temptation.