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Food
Produce, heavy metals, labels, and eating well without a spreadsheet.
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Food
When Organic Matters and When It's a Waste of Money
The Dirty Dozen list has real critics, organic has real benefits, and your grocery budget deserves better than a blanket rule.
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Food
Lead and Cadmium in Dark Chocolate: How Worried Should You Be?
Consumer Reports tested the fancy bars and the numbers were real. So is the difference between a square and a habit.
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Arsenic in Rice Is Real. The Fix Is in How You Cook It
One cooking method removes most of it, some rices carry less than others, and babies are the group that actually needs the care.
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Food
Eating Fish Without the Mercury Math Headache
The benefits are proven, the risk is concentrated in a few big predators, and canned tuna has a simple two-word answer.
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Food
'No Added Hormones' Chicken and Other Meat Labels That Mean Nothing
Some label claims are federally meaningful, some are legally meaningless, and one is banned in poultry anyway. A decoder ring.
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Food
The Seed Oil Panic: What the Evidence Actually Shows
The internet decided canola is poison. Decades of trials disagree. Where the fear came from and what's worth keeping from it.
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Food
Fasting Is Worth Doing. The Reasons Everyone Gives Are Mostly Wrong
Cochrane's newest review found no clear advantage over ordinary dieting. We still land pro-fasting, and the reason is adherence, not autophagy.
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Food
How to Do a 48-Hour Fast Without Wrecking Your Week
Two days is the fast most people can actually finish. What to eat going in, what salt is for, and why the meal that ends it deserves the most planning.
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How to Do a Five-Day Water Fast (and How to Come Out of It)
Weeks of preparation, five days of water, then a refeed that matters more than the fast did. Including the dry-fasting claim we found no human evidence for.
