What happened when ultra-processed foods were matched for calories, sugar, fat, and fiber content in the first randomized controlled trial? In the United States, “junk food” is often used to describe less-healthy foods, like candy, ice cream, and chips, but there isn’t a consistent definition, so nutrition researchers came up with the concept of ultra-processed. The term “ultra-processed food”—if you want to call it that—describes industrial formulations that are typically seen

Not only is it more convenient, but when it comes to quality and food safety, some fish are best purchased frozen. Key Points Seafood is so perishable that buying it frozen often guarantees the freshest product. Freezing is an important step in eliminating seafood parasites. Some fish are a better value frozen, and some “fresh” options on the seafood counter are merely defrosted. Frozen food gets a bad rap, but when it comes to seafood, you’re often better off buying froz

Do you still feel tired even when you get the prescribed seven to nine hours of sleep a night? By now, you’re quite aware of the detoxifying and restorative benefits of sleep: Lasting energy Clear thinking and decision-making Weight loss Improved immune function Mood stability and emotional resilience Stress reduction (which helps reduce system-wide inflammation) Reduced risk of chronic diseases, such as heart disease and diabetes Yet it can be extremely frustrating feeling l

In the alternative health world, we have a tendency to focus on superfoods — those products of nature that improve our health and nurture our bodies. Often, we skip over those foods which have the opposite effect. These not-so-superfoods can harm not only your health in general, but also the sensitive state of your eyes and vision. That’s because certain foods can increase inflammation in the body, raise blood pressure, reduce nutrient absorption and harm your microbiome… all

The randomized trials are stronger than the skeptics admit, and the case against chlorhexidine is stronger than your dentist mentions. With a quick how-to from Dr. Kansara. Name one thing in your kitchen you can use to clean your mouth. Three, two, one. In the video above, Dr Tia Kansara answers her own challenge without blinking: a spoonful of cold-pressed organic coconut oil. The practice is oil pulling, and as she explains, it is not a wellness trend but one of the oldest

A flower older than medicine itself now matches the antidepressants, the OCD drugs, and the stimulants in head-to-head trials — with fewer side effects, a lower price, and kinship with the human body How saffron challenges the antidepressants, the OCD drugs, and the stimulants — on efficacy, safety, accessibility, and price. For three thousand years, Crocus sativus — saffron — has been threaded into the food, ritual, and medicine of Persia, India, and the Mediterranean. What

Allium sativum, the "Russian penicillin" --The plant the modern clinic forgot. How a common kitchen bulb outperformed the entire dermatology clinic -- and why that should not surprise us "Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food."-- attributed to Hippocrates, who prescribed garlic for infections, wounds, and tumors twenty-four centuries ago. There is a particular kind of result that the modern medical literature produces every so often and then quietly buries. Not an

A drug sold as harmless turns out to wound the gut, the heart, the kidney, and the very ecology within us. Here is the full ledger — and the plants that heal without a bill coming due. “A foreign compound the body has no use for — and no fluent grammar to read — is not neutral. It is a stranger handed the keys to every room in the house.” ~ REGENERATE There is a word that pharmacology uses with great precision and almost no public attention: xenobiotic. From the Greek xenos,

Adding a healthy option can actually drive people to make even worse choices, thanks to a mind-blowing glitch of human psychology. In 2017, and to much fanfare, menu labeling for calorie counts began to be mandated in national chain restaurants. Consumers should have the information needed to make healthy food choices outside the home, right? It makes sense that caloric information on menus will help people limit their food intake to stay within their daily energy needs. But

These days, it’s hard to know which foods are good to eat and which foods you should avoid with a 10-foot pole. This diet or that study will have you running circles in the supermarket, often with different sources completely contradicting each other. A classic example is eggs. Ten years ago, the health authorities had us thinking that the average egg was only one step away from junk food, being loaded with bad cholesterol and unhealthy saturated fats. Today, these same exper