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The War On Food Waste Is Here: Meet The Farmlink Project
The Farmlink Project, an altruistic organization founded by college students, is combating food waste on a grand scale. We spoke with co-founder Aidan Reilly to learn more.
Can Rapid Weight Gain Be Healthy?
It’s not just the number on the scale that can affect heart disease and diabetes risk, longevity, and other indicators of overall health, but how you get there.
Can Food Affect Mood?
It doesn’t take a team of scientists to figure out that the prospect of a delicious meal has a way of perking up one’s mood.
Nutrition Psychiatry: How Food Impacts Mental Health
Food is for physical wellness, and pharmaceutical products are for mental health conditions—that’s where most of us land when it comes to nutrition psychiatry.
Dieting vs Intuitive Eating
It may seem like a relatively new issue, but really, the dieting vs intuitive eating debate is just the latest incarnation of an age-old dilemma: is it better to plow through obstacles or go around them?
Analyzing Superhero Diets: Are They Actually Healthy?
While the real heroes of Greek and North mythology sustained themselves on nectar, ambrosia, and mead, modern-day actors on the superhero diet have to settle for considerably less elysian fare—think grilled chicken, and lots of it.
The Vacationer’s Guide to Healthy Eating
This may seem like a fun-killing exercise at first, but we’re not interested in coddling or pandering to our readers, so let’s get the harsh reality out of the way: most of us haven’t earned the right to binge on vacation.
The Breatharian Diet: Can We Live Without Food?
Practitioners and teachers of true breatharianism do not believe in eating food or drinking water; they believe that they can survive on “prana” (the Hindu concept of energy or lifeblood) provided from solar rays, the air, and the energy around them.
The Science of Craving
Junk food and fast food companies have become so adept at milking our prehistorically rooted cravings for fat, salt, and simple carbs that they don’t even need to hide their tricks anymore.
Trace Mineral Deficiencies Silently Threaten Public Health
It’s human nature to assign priority based on how much of a particular nutrient is required, but by fixating on macronutrients like calcium, potassium, and so on, we’ve created a gaping blind spot in public knowledge.
The Most Common Nutritional Deficiencies
Sugar, salt, and fat have presided over the American food industry as a tyrannical threesome for some time now, and thanks to their massive success, they’re well cemented into the infrastructure.
Stress-Eat the Proper Way with Ashwagandha
Ashwagandha is a small, bushy plant native to India, the Middle East, and some regions of Africa.