Monday, October 12
The Oat Bran Craze Crashed. The Oats Were Right.
In 1990 a Boston study sank the oat bran fad. Thirty years of trials since tell a smaller, truer story about the bowl on your table.
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Friday, October 9
Can An Evening Workout Undo A Day In The Chair?
A million people were studied to answer that. The number they came back with is bigger than you'd like.
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The Browning That Makes A Vegetable Worth Eating
Roasted roots, the chemistry behind the sweetness, and the one thing to avoid letting happen in the pan.
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Somebody Finally Tested An Apple A Day
The proverb is 160 years old. In 2015 a researcher checked it against real medical records, and the answer is funnier than you'd expect.
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The Pill 25,000 People Tested, And What It Didn't Do
Low vitamin D tracks with almost every illness. Then the big trials handed out the pills, and most of the benefits vanished.
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The Green Sauce That Rescues A Dull Dinner
Herbs, garlic, olive oil, lemon. Ten minutes of chopping, and one safety rule about garlic in oil that matters.
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The Tin With More Calcium Than A Glass Of Milk
Sardines cost about a dollar. Here's what's in one, and the honest state of the omega-3 research.
Read the issueFriday, September 25
The Eight Glasses Rule Came From A Sentence Nobody Finished Reading
Where the number came from, why thirst is usually enough, and the two situations where drinking more water genuinely helps.
Read the issueWednesday, September 23
The Stew A Man Once Traded His Inheritance For
Lentils are among the oldest crops we grow. Here's the soup, and the trial that found a real, modest effect on cholesterol.
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The food is already at your grocery store.
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