Food & Nutrition

By Senay Simsek

As the call for eating less red-meat grows, the substitutes are raising their game. I have written about the Impossible Burger and I see that a Beyond Chicken is being introduced by the Colonel.

It’s hard to overstate the keto diet fever that has been gripping the US. And it’s not just West and East coast, but all over. Yelp’s data analysis team identified Portland, Phoenix, Austin and Dallas as the top U.S.

Oooh I do love to hear how a penchant for red wine might do a person (me) good!

NPR just ran a

Many of us overeat, as reflected in rising BMIs. It is a problem quickly solved theoretically by calorie reduction, although in practice it is a tougher problem.

Heard the one about fruit being unhealthy because it has much higher sugar levels than it did in the good ol’ days?

Most popular news stories about diet soda follow a predictable formula that goes as follows.

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The headline is not exaggeration or hyperbole. Scientific American just ran an article claiming that vegetables are becoming like sugary snacks and are toxic. And that's not even the worst part.