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Scientific Proof That Popcorn Is Healthier Than Fruit And Vegetables

Next time you’re stuffing your face with popcorn, don’t feel guilty; a new scientific study shows that, far from being junk food, popcorn packs a better nutritional punch than fruit or vegetables. Kind of.

March 8, 2012
Science

Is High Fructose Corn Syrup Really So Evil?

High fructose corn syrup seems to be in every freaking thing you buy at the supermarket these days. That’s because humans love sweet, and it’s cheaper than sugar.

October 25, 2011
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Fizzy, Sugary Soft Drinks Are Making Teens Hulk Out

Apparently, caffeinated drinks are not teaching the world to sing in perfect harmony. Though they didn’t name specific brands of soft drink, researchers report that teens who overindulged in non-diet, carbonated soft drinks per week are extra violent. They studied 1878 kids at 22 Boston public high schools.

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A Good Day For Vices: Coffee And Hot Dogs Are Healthy

Nitrates in hot dogs have had a menacing reputation since the ’70s, and doctors are constantly telling us to drink coffee in moderation. But I have excellent news to report today: hot dogs don’t seem to cause cancer, and coffee can actually protect you from it.

May 21, 2011
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Lab-Grown Meat: It’s What’s For Dinner

In this week’s New Yorker, Michael Specter takes a great look at the world of in-vitro meat—grown in a lab, outside an animal body. It’s not a matter of if, but when. Will you eat it?

February 11, 2011
Software

Fooducate App Explains Just How Unhealthy That Frozen Dinner Is

Here’s a handy app for calorie (and sodium, and carb, and vitamin) counters: Fooducate, which grades any package in your grocery aisles, gives you its contents’ nutritional highlights (and lowlights), and provides healthier alternatives.

January 25, 2011
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The ‘Blueberries’ You’re Eating Might Be Made Out Of Chemicals

Blueberries! They’re good for you! High in antioxidants! Delicious! Except when they’re made out of “sugar, corn syrup, starch, hydrogenated oil, artificial flavours and artificial food dye blue No. 2 and red No. 40″, as found in a new report.

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What Jack LaLanne Did For Your Body

Jack LaLanne wasn’t just a fitness guru. Mere fitness gurus don’t tow 70 rowboats – while handcuffed – at age 70. Jack was a powerhouse. He died today, at 96. But not before eating and lifting his way through exercise gear history.

November 6, 2010
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The Truth Behind The Everlasting Happy Meal: No Burgers That Size Rot

The internet was totally grossed out recently by images that showed a McDonald’s hamburger sitting out in the open for six months without decomposing or rotting. But one blogger dug a bit deeper, and it turns out no hamburgers rot.

July 31, 2010
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Europe Could Be Eating Cloned Meat, Dairy Right Now

Whether you think it’s cool and futuristic or gross and immoral, cloning can yield leaner, healthier livestock. And the Times reports that some cloned meat and dairy products are already thought to be lining Old World supermarket shelves.

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