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From celery juice and carnivore diets to gluten avoidance and "proteinmaxxing," nutritional advice has become a bewildering ...

Pesticides are designed to kill insects, fungi, and weeds. So, it is reasonable to wonder whether they can harm us as well.

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Debunking misinformation is a big business. For every health "influencer" selling a supplement on Instagram, there's probably ...

From the hidden institutional pressures ruining scientific integrity to the alarming public health signals behind rising ...

We tend to regard chronic disease as the cumulative consequence of choices made over decades. However, a study of an ...

How many cookies are too many? A new meta-analysis links greater consumption of ultra-processed foods to several chronic ...

The media recently pushed alarming headlines claiming the EPA gutted clean-air rules by rolling back power plant greenhouse ...