People’s first instinct when engaging with conspiracy believers is often to try and debunk their ideas with factual and authoritative information. However, direct confrontation rarely works....
When England’s Food Standards Agency boss Susan Jebb recently compared eating cake at work to passive smoking, office cubicle walls across the land quivered. She told...
Parents of young children today were raised during some of the most damaging periods of diet culture. From diet and “lite” foods and drinks, to expensive...
Detox diets are often touted as a way to cleanse the body after the excess food and drinks that come with the holidays. These diets promise...
Welcoming the Year of the Rabbit in Taiwan in 2011. Jimmy Yao/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND On Jan. 22, 2023, more than a billion people globally will welcome...
Is there such a thing as nothing? – Reggie, aged seven, Darlington Could someone see nothing? What does nothing look like? – Maya, aged nine, Bristol...
Dreary weather, freezing temperatures, long dark days, no festivities to look forward to – it’s beginning to feel at lot like the middle of January. The...
For most of human history if you wanted to know what was going on behind someone’s eyes you had to make your best guess. But since...
The impact of vegan diets on our pets’ health produces heated debate from people on both sides. But until now, we haven’t had a formal assessment...
Many people look to diet trends or new exercise regimens – often with questionable benefit – to get a healthier start on the new year. But...