Food, Health and Dieting

By doing something as small as adjusting your mealtimes, you can re-set your body clock and improve your health, says Emily Manoogian. What that... (2019)

They’ve been linked to disease and overeating. Could our microbiome explain why? (2019)

For the microbiologist Justin Sonnenburg, that career-defining moment—the discovery that changed the trajectory of his research,… (2018)

How Muscle Milk and Protein Culture Conquered America (2018)

Because of soil depletion, crops grown decades ago were much richer in vitamins and minerals than the varieties most of us get today... (2018)

Calorie-counting has been central to people's understanding of weight loss for over a century. Given that the great majority of diets fail—could th... (2019)

Are eggs helpful to our health… or a cause of heart disease? BBC Future examines the evidence. "If there was such a thing as a perfect food, egg... (2019)

Depression symptoms dropped significantly in a group of young adults who ate a Mediterranean-style diet for three weeks. It's the latest study to s... (2019)