Can you lose weight without exercising? Plenty of sweat-averse dieters out there sure hope so. And who hasn’t heard that whole “weight loss is 80 percent diet, 20 [...]
Researchers from the University of Manitoba’s George and Fay Yee Centre for Healthcare Innovation in Canada find that non-nutritive sweeteners may be linked to risk of [...]
You’ve made the decision to clean up your diet, and so far, things are chugging along pretty smoothly—when you cook at home, at least. Dining out, on the other hand, [...]
There’s nothing like that first sip of coffee in the morning and two new large studies confirm a few daily cups of the intense brew can be part of a healthy lifestyle. [...]
The following story is excerpted from TIME’s special edition, The Science of Exercise, which is available at Amazon. Dr. Dena Oaklander, a psychiatry resident—who also [...]
A-list celebs continue to endorse the alkaline diet, the pH-based eating plan that includes both basic foods (like broccoli) and acidic ones (like lemons) that promote [...]
Our sense of smell is key to the enjoyment of food, so it may be no surprise that in experiments at the University of California, Berkeley, obese mice who lost their sense of [...]
Raise your hand if you’ve ever found yourself halfway through a bag of quinoa chips before asking yourself, “Wait, am I just eating because I’m bored?” Or sad. Or [...]
Think of your meals and snacks as deposits toward your total health. Would you rather deposit a penny or a dime? They’re roughly the same size, but a dime goes much [...]
For most people having a good memory means being able to remember more information clearly for long periods of time. For neuroscientists too, the inability to remember was [...]