Connie Schultz, in Creators, on what to say (and not say) to someone whose loved one has died by suicide. Amanda Mull, in The Atlantic, on...

So it's back to school time, and zero doubt, many of your kids are going to have teachers and schools who will use candy and junk food a...

James Steele, in The Evolution Institute, on how evolution best informs exercise . Jeremy B. White, in The Agenda, on how the food industr...

Last week saw the publication of an op-ed authored by Drs. David Ludwig, Cara Ebbeling, and Steven Heymsfield entitled, " Improving the...

Olga Khazan, in The Atlantic, discusses people like me - cursed to wake up every day before 5:30am . Mark Lukach, in The Pacific Standard,...

To be clear, neither Random House, nor Kellogg's, should be fairly expected to do the right thing when it comes to health. Kellogg...

James Hamblin, in The Atlantic, on how fresh apples (and other fruit) are perhaps the only probiotics you should be buying. Emily Atkin, i...

No one wants aging to happen to them, and yet. While eventually we'll all lose the fight, that doesn't mean we can't go down s...

Glenn C. Loury, in The New York Times, asks why are democrats defending "an ambulance-chasing, anti-Semitic, anti-white race hustler...

Literally every time I write about chocolate milk being a beverage worth actively minimizing in your diet (have the smallest amount of it yo...

Julia Belluz, in Vox, with a terrific overview of the keto diet. Kera Bolonik, in The Cut, with a bizarre and gripping read about "th...

Though there are certainly some celebrity quacktacular physicians I would like to see eat crap, but what I wouldn't be able to tell them...

Ariel Sobel, with a great piece in Jewish Journal, on how fighting anti-semitism with racism doesn't actually fight racism but rather hi...

Walking school buses for kids are often promoted on the basis that if more kids were involved with them, their weights, fitness, and maybe...

Olga Khazan, in The Atlantic, with further evidence that education alone is insufficient for behaviour change with her stories on how physic...

You might think that having a heart attack would be motivating when it came to behaviour change, and that taking medications is a very strai...

Geoff Manaugh, in The Atlantic, on Law and Order: Mars . Aaron Ross Coleman, in Buzzfeed, on fast food, blood pressure, and black American...

According to Cancer Research UK's new public advertisements, obesity is apparently the new smoking. What that means of course is that ...

William Langewiesche, in The Atlantic, with just incredible reporting on what we do and don't know about the final flight of Malaysia Ai...

Today's guest post comes from Dylan MacKay. Dylan is a nutritional biochemist who has type 1 diabetes and when I saw RD Marie Spano'...