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Coffee and common herbal teas impair iron absorption, which may help explain some of their benefits.

The largest study to date found that vegetarians have a 30% lower chance of developing depression over time.

Is small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) a real disorder?

As we age, it may be even more important to include mushrooms (or tempeh) in our diet.

Snapshot-in-time cross-sectional studies are mixed when it comes to vegetarian diets and mental health outcomes.

Can offering kale purée to babies shape their future taste for greens?

Why do 85% of menopausal women suffer hot flashes in some countries but only 15% in others? Soy can be considered a first-line treatment for menopausal hot flash and night sweat symptoms.

The 150 key nutritional components that are tracked in nutritional databases are only a tiny fraction of the more than 26,000 compounds present in our food.

What are the human health effects of the mineral oils, phthalates, and bisphenols leaching from packaging materials into processed foods?

Plant-based diets improve the performance of athletes and nonathletes alike

There are contaminants of processed foods that don’t show up on the ingredients label.

Why can’t we just look at ingredients lists on food labels and avoid food additives that we know are harmful?

Taking even less than 18 Ambien-class sleeping pills in an entire year may triple the risk of dying prematurely.

Cold water immersion is put to the test for burns, priapism, gout, and muscle aches.

The FDA finds 1 in 10 imports of shrimp have unsafe levels of drug residues yet only tests about 1 in 1,000 shipments.

Healthy plant-based diets appear to help reduce the risks of severe COVID-19 and getting infected in the first place, even independent of comorbidities.

Eating just a single shrimp could exceed the safety limit for banned pesticides and chemicals.

Our gut can be sedentary too—unless we feed it fiber.

Those randomized to 8.5 hours of sleep a night lost significantly more body fat than those who got 5.5 hours. Getting even one more hour of sleep a night may help with weight control.

Could eating more fiber mean absorbing fewer calories from everything else we eat?

A single can of tuna causes as much mercury exposure as how many mercury-containing vaccines?

One cannot assume that simply avoiding animal foods will necessarily produce a healthy diet.

Does cold stress impair or boost our immunity?

Banned in Europe for concerns regarding DNA damage, titanium dioxide remains legal in U.S. foods.

Does poop from centenarians have anti-aging properties?

What is the optimal dosing regiment for iron supplements?

Donating blood can bring down iron levels down to the sweet spot between 15 to 50.

The spice fenugreek contains 4-hydroxyisoleucine, a peculiar amino acid that may explain its benefits for controlling blood sugar.

Having high iron stores can increase cancer risk such that those randomized to donate blood experience a dramatic reduction in cancer death rates.

Can oat milk’s nutritional profile compete with soy milk’s?