Biking and walking commutes, when convenient, come with their own bonuses: the chance to squeeze into two separate exercise sessions in a workday, fresh air, and avoiding stressful car commutes. But even in the bike-friendly city of Bologna, Italy, those fresh-air commuters receive some extra incentive.

Well, here’s a new one (to me, at least): The Guardian reports today on “monophagy,” a condition in which a person eats only one food. Similar to Andrew Hawryluk, who apparently ate the same meal at Chipotle in Los Angeles for 186 consecutive days. Or Mike Roman, from Hackensack, New Jersey, who says he has eaten a…

This is why I keep scrolling through Twitter, finding the occasional gem in the midst of a burning dumpster fire. Yesterday I spied this truly helpful notice by Buzzfeed reporter Julia Reinstein, who discovered that New York Presbyterian Hospital “maintains a Spotify playlist of songs that are the right beat to time…

Your stomach feels queasy—you’re definitely sick. But what is the cause—a virus, or those clams you got from that new restaurant last night?

If you’re trying to give up fast food or chocolate on favor or healthier food items, good for you! But a new report suggests that your first non-junk-food week may be rather trying. Live Science reports today on a new study, in which “researchers found that people attempting to cut down on eating highly processed…

There’s a fascinating article making the round in Huffington Post today, titled “Everything you know about obesity is wrong” by Michael Hobbes. It’s a long read, but a fascinating one, making the case that overweight people aren’t necessarily any more unhealthy than people who weigh less. Yes, we’ve heard that before.…

It’s fairly common knowledge that Starbucks Frappuccinos are laden with sugar and calories, with few healthful nutrients or protein. As a result, the coffee franchise has seen Frappuccino sales dip as consumers turned to more health-conscious beverages. To help turn this trend around, the company is attempting to push…

Studies either pro- or anti-alcohol seem to churn out with alarming frequency, but this latest report may be the most terrifying of all. A new study started sweeping the news last Thursday, ruining everyone’s weekends, with the news that the only safe amount of alcohol is none at all. The heady study, titled “Alcohol…

So, a Chipotle in Powell, Ohio made a bunch of people sick recently. Health officials in the county had received 518 inquiries as of Wednesday evening; per CBS, 200 people have been interviewed, and “food and samples from people have been sent to a state laboratory to test for salmonella, shigella, e.coli and…

This is one of those news stories apparently designed to make me feel like a grade-A sucker: Science Daily reports today that a new study by Ben-Gurion University Of The Negev debunks the popular diet trick “based on the Delbouef illusion” that encourages people to eat their food off smaller plates because it will…

This news comes, as so many good things do, from the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior. A brain-imaging study has revealed what Forbes calls a “hack for making healthier portion choices,” and it’s straight from the school of “yeah, no shit”: turns out we make healthier portion size…

This story is quite a journey.

In the latest round of food recalls, fortunately, things have been pretty mild. While the romaine lettuce E. coli outbreak earlier this year did claim a casualty, and there have been many salmonella cases tied to Honey Smacks, the latest voluntary recall tied to whey powder is merely a precautionary measure. So Kraft…

We may figure when we go out to eat at Cheesecake Factory or Chili’s that we’re not necessarily eating the healthiest food in the world. But the annual Xtreme Eating Awards, put out by the Center For Science In The Public Interest, highlight exactly just how unhealthy that food can be. This year’s “winners” were just…

I read with interest this story about a Memphis mom whose teenage daughter had to have her gallbladder removed. The mom is blaming the copious amounts of spicy snacks, like Flamin’ Hot Cheetos and Hot Takis, that the girl would eat, taking large bags of chips to school with her. The PR arms of those companies were…

The National Endowment for the Arts announced earlier this month that its annual Survey of Public Participation in the Arts shows more American adults are reading poetry than at any other time in the survey’s 15-year history (a whopping 12 percent!). Pacific Standard digs into the reasons why, noting that movements…

Japanese work culture is so stringent that some workers have actually died from karoshi, or chronic overwork. These workers die from heart failure or even suicide, in a culture that can see 100-hour workweeks with very little time off or vacation. While Japan is reportedly trying to loosen that culture to be less…

Look hard enough at any diet plan, and its true motive becomes clear. Is it trying to sell you manuals and seminars on how to adhere to the lifestyle? Or maybe it’s hawking snack bars and pre-packaged dinners that fall into their narrow definition of a square meal? Or, in the case of Whole30 (whose popularity has…

All parents have lofty goals before the baby actually arrives. These future kids will only listen to cool music, they will never watch Elmo, they will be open to a variety of different foods. Then the baby arrives and Kidz Bop, “Elmo’s World,” and an all-beige diet featuring chicken nuggets all manage to surface…

We reported earlier on KFC’s goals to have healthier menu options available in Britain by 2020, with a decrease of 20 percent in average meal calorie counts by 2025. Some of the options bandied about included sugar-free-only drinks, healthier sides, and vegetarian options. There, we were stumped: vegetarian options?…