Oprah Winfrey, a longtime figure in the national conversation about dieting and weight bias, devoted an hourlong prime-time special on Monday to the rise of weight loss drugs. Her goal, she said, was to “start releasing the stigma and the shame and the judgment” around weight and weight loss — starting with her own, she […]
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Does Yogurt Reduce Diabetes Risk? The FDA Allows Companies To Claim It Can
Nonfat or full-fat, flavored or plain, probiotic or natural — yogurt is already peppered with labels. But you may soon see a new claim on your container: This month, the Food and Drug Administration announced it will allow yogurt makers to say their products may prevent Type 2 diabetes. The F.D.A. said it has found […]
Read MoreIs Red Wine Actually Good for You? How the Drink Affects Heart Health
In a 1991 segment of “60 Minutes,” the CBS correspondent Morley Safer asked how it could be that the French enjoyed high-fat foods like pâté, butter and triple crème Brie, yet had lower rates of heart disease than people in the United States. “The answer to the riddle, the explanation of the paradox, may lie […]
Read MoreBob Moore, Who Founded Bob’s Red Mill, Is Dead at 94
Bob Moore, the grandfatherly entrepreneur who, with his wife, Charlee, leveraged an image of organic heartiness and wholesome Americana to turn the artisanal grain company Bob’s Red Mill into a $100 million dollar-a-year business, died on Saturday at his home in Milwaukie, Ore. He was 94. His death was announced by the company, which did […]
Read MoreCultivated Meat’s Empty Promise of Revolution
It is a gleaming vision of a world just beyond the present: a world in which meat is abundant and affordable with almost no cost to the environment. Animal slaughter is forgotten. Global warming is restrained. At the heart of the vision is a high-tech factory housing steel tanks as tall as apartment buildings and […]
Read MoreWhy Cholesterol Is Important For Health and How To Lower It
While 86 million adults in the United States have high cholesterol levels, one third of Americans say they haven’t had their numbers checked in the last five years. Getting your cholesterol tested — and under control — is critical to preventing heart disease and other serious health problems. But figuring out when to test and […]
Read MoreHow Does Alcohol Affect Your Gut Health?
A frothy beer or a glass of wine can enhance a meal and settle the mind. But what does alcohol do to the trillions of microbes living in your gut? As with much of microbiome science, “there is a lot that we don’t know,” said Dr. Lorenzo Leggio, a physician-scientist who studies alcohol use and […]
Read MoreA ‘Revolutionary’ Way to Feed the World That’s Very Old
“There are some interesting hints or nods in the right direction: the focus on crop diversity and nutrition, Indigenous knowledge, a focus on neglected crops,” said Bill Moseley, a professor at Macalester College in Saint Paul, Minn., who has worked on agriculture programs with the U.S. Agency for International Development and the World Bank. “What’s […]
Read MoreWhen Hakim Jeffrey, 24, Met Hakeem Jeffries, 53
Growing up, Hakim Jeffrey did not think much about politics. But people would often point out that his name sounded very similar to the name of his representative in Congress, a rising star in the House and fellow Brooklyn native. “All of them would just tell me, ‘You should meet this man some day,’” Mr. […]
Read MoreFood Marketing in the Ozempic Age
One day about 60 years ago, the comedian Bert Lahr put on a devil suit, held up a potato chip and uttered a phrase that would become a food-marketing milestone: “Betcha can’t eat just one.” Positioning food as deliciously addictive, as Lay’s did in its sly TV commercial, became advertising gold. In the decades that […]
Read MoreHealth Benefits of Whole Grains: What to Know About the Mediterranean Diet Staple
This is Day 1 of Well’s Mediterranean Diet Week. For me, a meal isn’t complete without a hunk of whole-wheat bread to dip into my soup, or a pile of brown rice to soak up my curry. Whole grains provide sustenance and comfort. And lucky for us, they’re a main feature of the Mediterranean diet, […]
Read MoreThe Meme King of Longevity Now Wants to Sell You Olive Oil
“Ready, on three,” Jamie Love said to the group of hikers as they huddled for a photo. “One, two, three …” “Don’t die!” they shouted in unison. The dozen or so strangers were gathered at the foot of Temescal Canyon Trail along the Pacific coast in Los Angeles on a cool Saturday morning in mid-December. […]
Read More15 G.O.P. Governors Shut Out Food Aid for 8 Million Children
More than eight million children in 15 states, all led by Republican governors, will be shut out of a new federal food assistance program intended to help needy families during the summer months. Set to begin this summer, the new program provides low-income families $120 per eligible child, which can be used to purchase food […]
Read MoreWhat Happens When There Is No Food: Experts Say Severe Malnutrition Could Set in Swiftly in Gaza
A panel of experts affiliated with the United Nations has warned that the population of the Gaza Strip is at imminent risk of famine, with more than 90 percent of its 2.2 million people facing “acute food insecurity” and a quarter of the population experiencing “catastrophic levels of hunger.” Even before the war between Israel […]
Read MoreWIC Food Assistance for Mothers and Children Faces Funding Shortfall
For the first time in decades, many states could begin turning away eligible applicants from an assistance program that provides low-income women and their children critical access to food. The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children, a federally funded program known as WIC, has traditionally received bipartisan support from lawmakers. But the […]
Read MoreThe 7 Keys to Living Longer and Healthier
Humans have searched for the secret to immortality for thousands of years. For some people today, that quest includes things like sleeping in a hyperbaric chamber, experimenting with cryotherapy or blasting oneself with infrared light. Most aging experts are skeptical that these actions will meaningfully extend the upper limits of the human life span. What […]
Read MoreJennifer Weiner on Oprah’s Recent Weight-Loss Announcement
I can’t tell you where I put my car keys or what I had for breakfast three days ago, but I can tell you Oprah Winfrey’s goal weight. My current Apple password and most of my elementary school teachers’ names have been lost to the mists of time. But I can tell you how much […]
Read MoreGot Time for Milk? An Overwhelmed House, Somehow, Does.
With one day to go until Congress plans to call it quits for the year and members head home for the holidays, the House got down to pressing business on Wednesday, using its precious remaining time to pass legislation to bring whole milk back to America’s school cafeterias. An emergency aid package to fund the […]
Read MoreOprah Says She Is Taking Weight Loss Medication
In 1988, Oprah Winfrey tugged a red wagon filled with fat across the stage of her television show to represent the 67 pounds she said she had lost on a liquid diet. Just a few years later she renounced dieting, but her fluctuating weight and the bias she has experienced because of it have remained […]
Read MoreNew Drugs Can Fix Teenage Obesity, but Young People Don’t Get Them
Dr. Edward Lewis, a pediatrician in Rochester, N.Y., has seen hundreds of children with obesity over the years in his medical practice. He finally may have a treatment for their medical condition — the powerful weight loss drug Wegovy. But that does not mean Dr. Lewis is prescribing it. Nor are most other pediatricians. “I […]
Read MoreHow Much Weight Comes Back After Stopping a Weight-Loss Drug?
Zepbound, the newly approved weight loss drug, hit the market this month. People seeking out the medication may have to stay on it for the foreseeable future — potentially, for the rest of their lives — if they want to keep the weight off, new research confirms. A study published Monday followed 670 people who […]
Read MoreBellevue Hospital Rushes Patients Into Weight-Loss Surgery
Early one morning in February, a guard clanged on the door of David Mustiga’s jail cell on Rikers Island. Soon, the 43-year-old was shackled and put on a bus to Bellevue. Rikers detainees often struggle to get even rudimentary medical care. But Mr. Mustiga and 10 other prisoners have undergone elective bariatric surgery at Bellevue, […]
Read MoreScientists in Discredited Alcohol Study May Advise U.S. on Drinking Guidelines
Five years ago, the National Institutes of Health abruptly pulled the plug on an ambitious study about the health effects of moderate drinking. The reason: The trial’s principal scientist and officials from the federal agency’s own alcohol division had solicited $60 million for the research from alcohol manufacturers, a conflict of interest and a violation […]
Read MoreCan Certain Foods Reduce Cancer Risk? Which Ones Experts Recommend
On average, more than one in three people in the United States will develop cancer at some point in their lifetime, according to the American Cancer Society. And many of those cases, they say, can potentially be prevented, including by making changes to your diet. Scientists have a good idea of what foods you should […]
Read MoreFor Health, More Nuts, Beans and Whole Grains In Your Diet
The case has never been clearer: Eat less bacon and more beans. An analysis published Wednesday in the journal BMC Medicine, drawing on data from 37 studies, adds to the evidence that eating fewer animal-based foods — especially processed meats — and replacing them with whole grains, legumes and nuts is linked to a reduced […]
Read MoreBariatric Surgery at 16
In June, grasping her white stuffed puppy with floppy ears and her red blanket printed with gray hedgehogs, Alexandra waited in the pre-op area. She was nervous, but “not as nervous as she is,” she said, pointing to her mother. Gabriela nodded and said, “I think I’m thinking too much.” Alexandra’s father sat quietly beside […]
Read MoreEating Red Meat May Increase Type 2 Diabetes Risk, Study Suggests
People who regularly eat red meat may have a higher risk of Type 2 diabetes later in life, according to a large study published on Thursday in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Those who often consume processed meats, like bacon, hot dogs and lunch meat, have an even greater risk. Cutting down on red […]
Read MoreIron Deficiency: What to Know About Testing and Treatment
Iron is an essential nutrient for many things our bodies do every day, and yet more than a third of adult women of reproductive age in the United States are deficient. Menstrual bleeding and pregnancy are the main drivers of the deficiency. Symptoms are often nonspecific and vague, like fatigue, brain fog, lightheadedness, sleep disturbances […]
Read MoreMany Younger Women Are Iron Deficient: Risks, Causes and Symptoms
Iron that isn’t used for hemoglobin or other functions is stored in the bone marrow and liver as a protein called ferritin. When the body’s iron stores dip, the remaining iron is redirected to the maintenance of red blood cells at the expense of heart, brain and muscular functions, Dr. Munro said. If the body […]
Read MoreSuzanne Somers, Original Influencer?
Of all the sunny blondes of the 1970s, Suzanne Somers was the sunniest. She had the face, the figure, the hair, the smile, the giggle, the wiggle, and enough good humor to make her breakout “dumb blond” character on “Three’s Company” lovably watchable rather than cloying or offensive. Being a bombshell can bring a certain […]
Read MoreFood Industry Influence Could Cloud the U.S. Dietary Guidelines, a New Report Says
It is a long-running concern of government watchdogs: Some of the experts responsible for helping to craft the U.S. dietary guidelines also take money from big food and drug companies. A report published Wednesday by the nonprofit U.S. Right to Know makes those concerns plain. Nine of the 20 experts on the 2025 Dietary Guidelines […]
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