Planets & Transits
New Moon in Leo August 12, 2026
The New Moon arrives in Leo August 12 at 8:36 PM UTC, and with it comes a singular...
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- Written by: Deanna Minich
The most scientific approach to healing doesn’t ever focus on just one small part of the human body, let alone ignore the role of thoughts, beliefs, and emotions in our health. You get the best results by addressing the whole person.
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- Written by: Marc David
Vitamin P—pleasure—is a vital element that makes our meals nutritionally complete and makes life worth living. Like all organisms on the planet, we humans are genetically programmed to seek pleasure and avoid pain. A cat chasing a mouse is seeking pleasure; the unfortunate rodent is doing its best to avoid pain.
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- Written by: Jennifer Langston, University of Washington
People post millions of food photos on Instagram every day. New research suggests this could be a way to track food intake for weight loss or fitness.
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- Written by: Jeff Mulhollem, Penn State
Eating a diet that includes foods containing soy protein may work to alleviate some symptoms of inflammatory bowl diseases, a new study with mice suggests.
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- Written by: University of Michigan
Every year, millions of Americans get short-term prescriptions for steroids, such as prednisone, often for back pain, allergies, or other relatively minor ailments.
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- Written by: Layne Cameron, Michigan State University
Sunflower seeds and products made from them are often contaminated with a toxin produced by molds, report researchers. This poses an increased health risk in many low-income countries worldwide.
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- Written by: Barbara Moran, Boston University
New research suggests that excess sugar—especially the fructose in sugary drinks—might damage your brain.
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- Written by: Julie Cohen, University of California, Santa Barbara
Healthier people mean not only less disease but also reduced greenhouse gas emissions from health care. Changing your diet, therefore, could be a way to fight climate change.
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- Written by: Christina Sumners, Texas A&M University
Spermidine—a compound in foods like aged cheese, mushrooms, soy products, legumes, corn, and whole grains—may prevent liver fibrosis and hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common type of liver cancer.
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- Written by: Andrea Kunicky, University of Pittsburgh
The common but otherwise harmless reovirus can trigger the immune system response to gluten that may lead to celiac disease, new research shows.
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- Written by: Marc David
This is the greatest favor I can do for you as a nutritionist: A diet program that doesn’t tell you exactly which foods to eat and in what amounts. Empowering you to be in deeper relationship with food and with the genius in your body is the surest road to your most powerful metabolism.
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- Written by: Joanna Poppink, MFT
Wherever you are right now, the good news is that you can begin any time, at any stage in your life, and in any situation or circumstance. You are reading this because somewhere inside of you, you want to be free...
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- Written by: Richard Steed, University of Copenhagen
One out of every 2,000 people suffers from long QT syndrome, which can lead to heart failure. For these people, too much sugar may be dangerous, research shows.
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- Written by: Jim Erickson, University of Michigan
Mercury concentrations in Hawaiian-caught bigeye and yellowfin tuna are steadily rising and mirror increases in North Pacific waters that have been linked to atmospheric mercury emissions from Asia.
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- Written by: Zandile Mchiza, Human Sciences Research Council
Food advertising strongly influences the eating choices of adults, adolescents and children alike. But TV and magazine adverts often carry misleading health and nutrition claims.
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- Written by: Erika Ebsworth, Washington University in St. Louis
Scientists are investigating a compound found in green tea for often-fatal medical complications associated with bone-marrow disorders.
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- Written by: Clare Collins, University of Newcastle
I was recently asked: If my eating habits are half good and half bad, does that make my overall diet balanced?
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- Written by: Dr. Rovenia Brock
More than a half-million people have lost over 5 million pounds by learning to conquer their food cravings. For many people, food choices have little to do with physical hunger. Instead, they are driven by an emotional hunger and they eat to satisfy some kind of longing.
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- Written by: Todd Bates, Rutgers University
A highly toxic form of mercury could jump by 300 to 600 percent in zooplankton—tiny animals at the base of the marine food chain—if land runoff increases by 15 to 30 percent, according to a new study.
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- Written by: Julie Cohen, University of California, Santa Barbara
Invasive insects called Asian shot hole borers are turning up in new areas of California where they threaten an important crop: avocados.
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- Written by: Julie Cohen, University of California, Santa Barbara
That spicy tuna roll you order at your favorite sushi restaurant may not be tuna at all. Scientists say as much as half of nine types of fish sold in sushi restaurants they sampled may be mislabeled, despite tougher laws and increased media scrutiny in recent years.
