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If most people are lactose intolerant, should I stop eating dairy?

A lot of popular claims about food are utterly illogical, yet ironically convincing. It's tricky to spot the common errors in reasoning...

Are you healthy? It depends on the popular definition.

Are you healthy? Are your blood tests normal? It depends on the definition of healthy and normal at that time. It's easy to forget that...

What's in your drug? Deciphering the details of my OC pill

Recently I've had a break out of acne. I'm 29 years old but it's as if my body has seen androgens for the first time. Funnily enough,...

Is your diet accelerating aging and disease? Dr Ames explains why micronutrients matter

If you haven't yet come across Dr Bruce Ames and his ground-breaking Triage Theory, this is a must read. Everybody should be talking...

The soul of a carrot - why we should return to eating food, not just counting macros

Macros, nutrients and calories. Our food-talk is a code of numbers and quantities. But here's the thing. Humans eat food, not nutrients....

The PURE Study says it's time to rethink traditional dietary guidelines

Dr Salim Yusuf, the President of the World Heart Federation, says high carbohydrates - not saturated fats - are associated with heart...