Wellness

Recommendations to try water-only fasting diets may be filling up your social media feeds, but researchers are warning people to seek medical advice before starting [...]

The Mediterranean diet—one of the most popular healthy eating patterns out there—might be good for more than just lowering your risk of heart attack, stroke, and [...]

Ask practically any doctor about how to live longer, and they’ll point you toward the textbook healthy habits: Cut back on sugary and salty processed foods in favor of [...]

Fad diets are nothing new, but some take things to the extreme. These days, with weight loss drugs like Wegovy grabbing headlines and more people laser-focused [...]

I recently returned from a wonderful vacation in Italy, so naturally, the Cilento Initiative on Aging Outcomes (CIAO) conference, which kicks off today in Acciaroli [...]

Women who eat more fiber and high-quality carbohydrates in midlife are more likely to be cognitively and physically healthy in their old age, a large new study suggests. [...]

Self-reporting is one of the primary ways that dietitians, medical doctors, and researchers assess people’s diets and their health effects. While useful, self-reporting, [...]

A group of researchers in China put 25 people through 62 days of intermittent energy restriction, IER for short, a fancy term for fasting. They dropped an average of 16.8 [...]

Obesity is a serious health problem in the United States. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data from 2023 show that more than 35%, or more than 1 in 3, [...]

The more researchers look for microplastics in the human body, the more they find them. The tiny fragments are released when larger plastic items break down in the [...]