Nuts That Heal the Body
byNo nut heals anything on its own, but the research shows what each one actually does. Here is the evidence on walnuts, almonds, pistachios, peanuts, hazelnuts and Brazil nuts.
Wellness
Clean living made practical — evidence-based guidance on the habits, products and swaps that make your home and body healthier.
5 Pros and 4 Cons of Dark Chocolate
byDark chocolate has a higher percent of actual cocoa compared to milk and white chocolate. The higher level of cocoa is what gives the…
The 20 Best Foods for Women (of Any Age)
byFood plays numerous roles in our lives; it brings people together, provides an avenue to express our creativity, and most importantly, fuels our body…
The Ultimate Hot Flash Survival Kit
byA hot flash kit for your bed, your body and your bag, plus the supplement that beat placebo and the ones that did not.
The Healthiest and Unhealthiest Halloween Candy, Category by Category
byKit Kat or Hershey’s? Reese’s Cups or Pieces? Eight Halloween candy categories, every pair compared at the same 30-gram weight so the wrapper size doesn’t decide it.
Anti-Aging Drinks: What Works and What Doesn’t, Based on the Evidence
byWhich anti-aging drinks hold up in the research, which ones are marketing, and the one drink to cut if you care about how you age.
What I Eat in a Day: A Registered Dietitian Shares Her Food Diary
byA Registered Dietitian shares her real food diary — breakfast through cocktail — plus the 10 daily nutrition categories that make consistent healthy eating achievable.
Five Foods This Registered Dietitian Would Never Eat
byA registered dietitian names the five foods she avoids outright, from kids’ cereal to cheese from a can, with the added sugar and sodium numbers behind each call and what she reaches for instead.
The Healthiest and Unhealthiest Fish, Category by Category
bySeven fish categories, one healthiest and one unhealthiest pick in each, chosen on the mercury and omega-3 numbers the FDA actually measured.
15 Longevity Foods the World’s Longest-Living People Eat Every Day
byFifteen foods that turn up again and again across two decades of Blue Zones research, counted down from 15 to 1, with the daily amounts the cited studies describe.
8 Supplements That Interact With Prescription Medications According to a Pharmacist
byEight supplement and prescription pairings that can change how a medication works — what happens in each case, whether spacing the doses helps, and what a pharmacist would want to know.
Recalibrating Your Cortisol Levels: Why Simply Lowering Cortisol Isn’t the Answer
byCortisol is meant to spike after you wake and fall through the day. Here is what a normal rhythm looks like, why at-home test kits mislead, and the habits that genuinely reset it.