Whether you’re roasting a chicken in the oven, frying onions in a skillet or choosing your toast sauce, oil is at the heart of our cooking activities. We have a dizzying array of options. From sunflower to flaxseed, avocado to coconut, there are now about 30 types of oil used in cooking. Your decision about […]
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It’s almost midnight and I’m binge-watching Netflix and having leftovers in the fridge. I knew I would regret it in the morning—and maybe in years to come. During my late-night feast, I was inadvertently gaming a system that had evolved to keep my body in sync with its natural 24-hour day-night cycle. Its implications include
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Spend more than 5 minutes on Instagram or TikTok – especially as a woman of a certain age – and you’re likely to encounter a fit, attractive person showing you what they ate today. It’s usually a bowl of oats, flax seeds, and berries, or a plate of leafy greens with lean meat or other
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Shutterstock/Natasha Brin Humans have been fermenting food and drinks for at least 13,000 years, and their health benefits have been promoted for almost as long. Despite our long history with them, we’re only beginning to determine whether these foods are actually good for our health. However, unlike our ancestors, we now know how fermentation works:
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Mapping tumors and the genetic changes within them could help develop new cancer treatments Sipa Press/Alami We now have some of the most detailed maps ever produced of several cancers, as well as new tools and methods for analyzing them. The findings come from an initiative called Cancer Mapping Human Tumor Atlas Networkand provide clues
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New research shows growing reasons to eat vegetables Alvarez/Getty Images When it comes to our diets, there’s an ever-changing list considered key to better health: cutting out carbs, eating like a caveman or taking so-called superfoods like turmeric. Most nutrients fail to live up to the hype, but there’s one supernutrient that’s bucking the trend.
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Britain was forced to ration sugar during World War II Fox Photos/Helton Archives/Getty Images Sugar rationing during and after the Second World War appears to have improved the health of people who became pregnant in Britain at the time, reducing their risk of type 2 diabetes and high blood pressure decades later. This suggests that
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Plating has never been more complicated. As well as calls to avoid overly processed foods and “bad” fats, we are also bombarded with an increasing number of sometimes conflicting dietary recommendations. Not only is this confusing, but it’s hard to tell what impact these choices will really have in the long run. Social media is
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We each have a different metabolic response to eating the same bread Matthew Ashmore/Alami Consider two slices of bread, one of handmade sourdough and the other of cheap, mass-produced white bread. Which one do you think is healthier? The correct answer is, you won’t know unless you try. Some people can have unhealthy reactions to
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It’s one of the scourges of life in the modern world: chronic inflammation. This unhelpful reaction of the body’s immune system has been linked to accelerated aging and diseases such as stroke and heart disease. What if we could suppress it by eating certain foods like spinach, walnuts, and salmon? Such is the promise of
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