People who sit for hours on end develop chronic diseases including diabetes, heart disease, dementia and several types of cancer at much higher rates than people who move throughout their day.
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Inflammation is a double-edged sword. It is critical for fighting infections and repairing damaged tissue, but when inflammation occurs for the wrong reasons or becomes chronic, the damage it causes can be harmful.
Ultra-processed foods aren’t just low in nutritional value. Researchers think the body may respond to them as if they were foreign material, triggering inflammation.
The right diet can boost brain health. There’s evidence that processed foods can have the opposite effect.
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Marketers count on packaging design to make unhealthy foods appealing. What kinds of things do they do to mislead consumers?
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Body Mass Index (BMI) — the relationship between your height and weight — is a common tool for "scoring" health. But it misses almost everything of importance.
Counting calories? How much the ingredients in a food product have been processed and how it is prepared can change how many calories your body will actually get from it. Don't count on a label to make this clear.
If you see a vegetable labeled "bioengineered," what does that mean? Should you eat it? A food scientist weighs in.
Reducing the amount of sweetened drinks kids consume when they are young could go a long way in keeping them healthy for a lifetime.
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