Monday, October 26
The Egg Limit Is Gone. Here's Who Should Still Keep One.
For decades you were told to cap the cholesterol in your food. That number came off the page in 2016, but the honest answer still depends on who you are.
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Friday, October 23
They Gave 404 People A Cold. More Hugs Went With Milder Illness.
What the hug study, the loneliness numbers and a 137-study review of touch really show, and where the proof runs out.
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Congee Was Sick-Day Food For 1,800 Years. Then A Hospital Tested It.
A plain pot of rice, ginger and scallion, why the starch and the salt matter on a queasy day, and where the "healing broth" story runs out.
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The Walnut Looks Like A Brain. The Proof Is In Your Arteries.
A 1657 herbal said the walnut was made for the head. The big brain trial came back flat, but the cholesterol trials did not.
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Your Liver Doesn't Need A Flush. It Needs These Five Foods.
The famous green stones from a liver cleanse turned out to be made by the cleanse itself. Here's what your liver really does, and the foods with named studies behind them.
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Cabbage Beat Scurvy 25 Years Before Vitamin C Had A Name.
In 1907 two doctors in Oslo kept guinea pigs free of scurvy with fresh cabbage. A raw cup still gives you more than a third of a day's vitamin C.
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The Carrot Was Safe. The Carrot Pill Wasn't.
Two huge trials gave smokers the orange pigment from carrots as a pill, and lung cancer went up. Here's why the same nutrient acts so differently inside a whole food.
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The Mustard Trick Is Real. Your Jar Of Dijon Was Never Tested.
A raw green bowl built on broccoli sprouts, what the mustard studies really showed, and how to keep the good part when you cook your greens.
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The Tomato Looks Like A Heart. That's Not Why It Helps.
The old shape story, the cancer rumor it once started, and what the science says about cooked tomatoes, oil and your blood pressure.
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