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Plant-based diet is not always virtuous—or healthy

Watch out, Big Broccoli — Jayne Buxton has your number. The investigative journalist has combed through more than 1,200 sources and interviews to write “The Great Plant-Based Con” (Hachette), available on Kindle in the US and in hardback next year. In it, she unpacks why going meat-free won’t necessarily save your health or the planet. Buxton,… Continue Reading

Does Drinking Alcohol Make You Gain Weight?

If you’re trying to maintain a healthy weight, the first step is to look at what you’re eating regularly and decide if it’s helping you meet your nutritional goals. But it’s not just paying attention to food. What you drink can be a factor too, including the beers you might enjoy during a summer cookout… Continue Reading

3 Ways Exercise Benefits Your Mental Health

When you work your body, you boost your mind in three essential ways. Cognition A new report from researchers at the University of Basel in Switzerland and the University of Tsukuba in Japan has found that coordinated and challenging sports with fellow players, like tennis or soccer, have a greater effect on cognitive abilities than… Continue Reading

How to improve your respiratory health in case you get Covid-19

Covid-19 is a respiratory illness, meaning if a person is infected, the condition of their respiratory system is one determinant of how they’ll fare with the disease. First it’s important to understand how the virus attacks our lungs. When people are infected, the virus travels to the mucus membranes and then the lungs. To control… Continue Reading

Why Some People Seem To Be Aging Faster Than Others

Scientists have confirmed that people grow old at radically different rates. If you’re ever in doubt that we all experience the aging process at different rates, just go to your high school reunion. Remember Carla, the bully who threatened to flush your head in the toilet? Well, now she looks like she’s had a real… Continue Reading

What to do when you can’t sleep

You’re exhausted. All you need is sweet, precious, lovely sleep. But the very thing you need right now just won’t happen. You toss, you turn, you tear your hair out, but you don’t drift off. So, what do you do when you can’t fall asleep? It’s a question I’ve asked myself many a time when… Continue Reading