Everyone eats three extra cheeseburgers a day than they admit, study shows
Everyone eats the equivalent of three extra McDonald’s cheeseburgers a day than they admit — regardless of their waistline, University of Essex researchers have revealed. The study shows obese and thin people all fib about food to the same amount regardless of the number on the bathroom scale and this could be undermining national health […]
Climate drove 7,000 years of dietary changes in the Central Andes: Only under the Inca Empire did sociopolitical factors dampen local climate’s influence on diet
What a person eats influences a person’s health, longevity and experience in the world. Identifying the factors that determine people’s diets is important to answer the bigger questions, such as how changing climates will influence unequal access to preferred foods. A new study led by University of Utah anthropologists provides a blueprint to systematically untangle […]
An overactive sweet tooth may spell trouble for our cellular powerplants
The average American eats roughly 22 teaspoons of added sugar a day — more than three times the recommended amount for women and more than double the recommended amount for men. Although this overconsumption is known to contribute to Type 2 diabetes and other disorders, the exact ways in which eating too much sugar sets […]