Salads are a lot less healthy once you make additions like croutons and a creamy dressing.
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Many foods that seem healthy contain various hidden fats, sugars and salts. If you’re trying to lose weight, it pays to know where they’re hiding.
Perfectionists are rarely satisfied with their performance or appearance and engage in harsh self-criticism when their efforts fall short. Perfectionists are also more likely to develop the eating disorder bulimia nervosa, according to new research.
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Perfectionists have a higher chance of developing bulimia nervosa. Rather than treating symptoms of binge eating and vomiting, therapists should address this underlying personality trait.
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No matter the time of the year, it’s always open season on veganism.
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UK mired by food ‘deserts’ and a crisis of loneliness – they should be tackled together.
Cutting out pesticides by eating only organic food could slash your cancer risk.
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New research suggests people who eat organic plant foods have a reduction in risk of common cancers.
Lab-grown or cultured meat, when done at scale, will be an industrial process with significant energy requirements.
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Despite many claims, nobody knows for sure how the environmental footprint of lab-grown meat compares to livestock. An animal scientist says the issue is not black and white.
You might lose weight in the short term but fad diets are impossible to sustain.
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Diets that promise drastic results with minimal effort, or that ban whole food groups, should ring alarm bells.
Avocadon’t?
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You have to draw an ethical line somewhere so if you were vegan, would you still eat avocados?
The apparent higher costs of healthy foods like fresh produce compared to fatty, starchy foods is thought to have contributed to food insecurity in Canada. But is there more at play than just cost?
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Although nutritious, inexpensive food options do exist for low-income Canadians, whether those foods are easily accessible or feasible has long evaded both nutrition researchers and politicians.
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A dietician recommends her top foods for a peaceful sleep.
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Seasonal animals such as the Siberian hamster can teach us a lot about appetite suppression.
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The continued prevalence of fat stigma and shaming needs to be challenged.
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Crash dieting is both safe and effective. So why isn’t it available on the NHS?
Being thin doesn’t mean you can eat unhealthy foods and get away with it.
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You might be thin on the outside, but if you have a poor diet and are physically inactive, you can have the same health risks as someone who is obese.
An ultra-marathon runner and exercise physiologist describes what it’s like to take part in an ultra-endurance event, and the consequences it had on his body.
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As omnivores, dogs should be able to adapt well and manage on well prepared commercially available vegetarian diets as long as the essential nutrients they would normally get from meat are present.
Smiles all round.
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If you’re a parent, there’s one less thing to worry about – your child is probably healthy even if they’re fussy about what they eat.
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Two large nutritional studies seem to have reported contradictory findings on carbs. But only if you believe the headlines.
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Healthy food isn’t just about organic food and so-called superfoods.
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If you want to remain lean, this study of mouse diets suggests your fat intake should make up just a fifth of your overall calorie intake.