When you’re considering changing your diet—doing the keto thing, cutting out carbs, eating less salt, or whatever—you’re supposed to do what pharmaceutical commercials say and “ask your doctor if it’s right for you,” right? Maybe not.
The young Thai soccer teammates rescued from a flooded cave this week are, understandably, beyond eager to eat some of their favorites foods like barbecued pork and fried chicken. But doctors warn that such foods could actually be lethal if they caused refeeding syndrome, which is characterized by sudden shifts in…
Doughnuts. Pizza. Mac ‘n’ cheese. People have jokingly called these foods addictive, but a new study from Yale University indicates that, no seriously, these foods might be stimulating our brains like addictive drugs.
Children as young as six months old are eating way more added sugar than they should, according to a new study of 800 American infants and toddlers conducted by an epidemiologist at the U.S. Centers For Disease Control And Prevention. Results show that more than 80 percent of kids under 23 months ate added sugars on…
When you work in a large enough office, the break room constantly seems to be hosting some sort of food-related celebration: cupcakes for Dianne’s new baby, pizza for Staff Appreciation Friday, a box of random doughnuts someone brought in because it’s Tuesday. According to a study from the U.S. Centers For Disease…
Did the U.S. government get anything right in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria? You go ahead and think on that; I’ll wait. (New data suggests the government couldn’t even get the hurricane’s death toll close to correct.) The latest revelation of governmental ineptitude comes in the form of new research from an…
On Monday, the Food and Drug Administration will require any food outlet with more than 20 locations—meaning restaurants, movie theaters, grocery stores, fast food joints, amusement parks, your Creameries Coldstone, your Aunties Anne, your Oranges Julii—will have to list the calorie counts for each of their menu…
We want to eat food that’s good for the environment, theoretically. But we’re too busy to read every Michael Pollan hardcover or find out exactly which farm our chicken came from. Today there’s good news for us lazy environmental eaters: Just look at the food pyramid, stupid!
Is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention just trolling us with the timing on this new report? On a day when most of us are elbow-deep slathering turkeys with butter, the CDC dropped a big ol’ finger wag of a study that finds only 10 percent of American adults eat enough fruits and veggies. Wait, do the celery…
