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Food is supposed to nourish us. It is supposed to bring pleasure, connect us to culture and memory, fuel our bodies, and be shared with people we love. But for a growing number of people, the pursuit of eating healthy has become a source of anxiety, rigidity, and isolation. Somewhere
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You already know that working too much is bad for your mental health, your relationships, and your sleep. But a major new study presented at the European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2026) reveals something that rarely comes up in conversations about overwork: long working hours are systematically linked to higher
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Most people know Roundup as a weed killer. What they don't know is that the same chemical sprayed on millions of acres of farmland every single day is also officially classified as an antibiotic — and according to a growing body of peer-reviewed research, it is quietly dismantling
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Mosquitoes have been biting humans for millions of years, and for decades, DEET has been our most reliable chemical weapon against them. But a landmark 2026 study from Virginia Tech has raised an unsettling possibility: mosquitoes may be capable of learning to ignore DEET — at least under certain conditions. Here
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Colorectal cancer is the second-leading cause of cancer death in the United States — and yet it is one of the most preventable and treatable cancers when caught early. The problem is that screening rates remain alarmingly low, with roughly one in three eligible Americans not up to date on
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Every summer, millions of people reach for sunscreen believing they are fully protected. But a landmark 2026 report from the Environmental Working Group (EWG) delivers a sobering reality check: nearly 80% of the sunscreens currently on US shelves fail to meet basic safety and efficacy standards. That means most of
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Pick up almost any packaged food at the grocery store and flip it over. Somewhere in that ingredient list, you will likely find names like potassium sorbate, sodium nitrite, or citric acid. For decades, regulators in the United States and Europe classified these preservatives as safe. Now, the largest nutritional
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Colorectal cancer is now the leading cause of cancer-related death among Americans under 50 — and yet one in three eligible adults has never been screened. The American Cancer Society just made it significantly easier to change that. In 2026, the ACS updated its colorectal cancer screening guidelines to officially
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You've probably heard that microplastics are everywhere. They're in the ocean, in the air, in your food, and in your water. But here's something that hits much closer to home: they're also inside your body — in your blood, your lungs, and, according
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Most people accept frailty as an unavoidable part of growing old. But a compelling and still underappreciated body of research suggests that in many older adults, the real driver of physical decline is not time itself — it is unresolved trauma. New findings show that treating that trauma with a well-
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A new Australian study has found that just four weeks of eating differently can measurably reduce biological age in adults aged 65 to 75. The research, published in Aging Cell in May 2026 by scientists at the University of Sydney's Charles Perkins Centre, tested four distinct dietary patterns
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Most adults know they should be sleeping more. But a landmark study published in Nature in May 2026 reveals that the conversation about sleep needs to go much deeper than counting hours. A team of researchers at Columbia University has demonstrated, for the first time at this scale, that sleep