Food & Nutrition Articles

Meat from scratch

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Scientists are working to produce meat without killing animals

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Fats encourage overeating

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Scientists find that fats push an “eat more” button in rats

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New source for healthy fats

Soy beans (left), extracted from their pods (right), are squeezed to release heart-healthy cooking oil.Credit: Scott Bauer/USDA

Scientists found a way to produce fish oil without harming a single fish

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Fat weighs heavy on the brain

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New study shows obesity interferes with memory, thinking and reasoning

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Tomatoes that trick taste buds

Eating these lab-grown treats can make sour foods taste really sweet

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A pepper part that burns fat

Study finds that dihydrocapsiate may give a diet extra power.

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The mercury in that tuna

Pinning down how much of the poison is in the fish we buy.

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Got Milk? How?

Scientists are tracking down the first people who squeezed this nutritious liquid out of animals thousands of years ago

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Junk food junkies

Rats on a junk food diet behave like drug addicts

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Treating peanut allergy bit by bit

New study offers a little hope in reducing an allergy to peanuts, but don’t try this at home

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