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: food
We all tend to lie about our food consumption, regardless of how much we weigh
This could be due to multiple reasons and have wide consequences
Simple restaurant menu tweaks can encourage people to make more eco-friendly choices
Our food choices can make a big difference for climate change
Replacing one in five steaks with mycoprotein can halve deforestation by 2050
It's a very slight change for a huge payoff. It's also quite tasty!
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.
Compound droughts risk destabilizing the global food supply if we keep burning fossil fuels
Empty tables are a chilling prospect.
Facebook ads can be used to gauge cultural similarity between countries
Social media knows everything about us.
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.
Just one extra hour of sleep can help overweight people eat less
If you struggle with weight loss, simply getting more sleep could do wonders.
Making diets more sustainable could be easier than we think
All it takes is one small change.
Cases of eating disorders have doubled in the US during the pandemic
Being stuck inside, stressed, did not help us develop healthy eating habits.
Healthier, more nutritious diets have a lower environmental impact — at least in the UK
Eating better would benefit you and the planet, too.
Why kids hate broccoli: a foul combination with oral bacteria
Enzymes in the plant and oral bacteria can produce stenchy sulfurous compounds.
Unprocessed plant-based food keeps your heart healthier at any age
Fewer burgers, more broccoli.
Microbes and solar energy could make finally make the food on our plates sustainable
Microbes could produce 10 times more food than plants, researchers find.
It burns so good: why do some people like spicy food?
I get flustered just looking at a pepper so I’m not one of them.
What makes ‘superfoods’ so super? New studies dive deep
Scientists have found insights about what makes honey and mangoes so healthy.
A third of all food is threatened by climate change
Like food? Then you should probably start paying more attention to climate change.
Spanish companies team up to create the first paella-cooking robot
Maybe, uhm, robots aren't so bad after all.
Consumers would pay more for sustainably produced food, study finds
Time to say goodbye to monocultures and encourage crop diversification.