Health
How many steps should you walk per day
Everyone knows the number 10,000, but almost no one knows its origin.
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Every article takes a claim you have already heard about food and follows the mechanism behind it — what actually happens in the body, what the research supports, and where the claim stops being true.
Health
Visceral fat: why it matters and how to measure it
Two people at the same weight, with the same BMI, can carry very different metabolic risk.
Health
Excess weight and health: what risks are confirmed
This topic is usually presented in a way meant to induce fear.
Health
Home exercise equipment: do treadmills and stationary bikes help
A treadmill does not create a calorie deficit.
Health
How sleep loss affects appetite and weight
Sleep usually turns up in the last paragraph of a weight-loss article, phrased vaguely enough to be safe.
Nutrition
Collagen supplements: what digestion does to them
Two equally confident claims circulate about collagen.
Nutrition
Activated charcoal for “detox”: what it actually binds
Activated charcoal is cheap, sold without a prescription, and taken for almost anything: the morning after, a weekend cleanse, sometimes a course of capsules for weight loss.
Nutrition
Alkaline water and “an acidic body”: what the stomach does to it
People talk about “an acidic body” as though it were a condition you can acquire from the wrong breakfast and correct with the right water.
Nutrition
Food combining: what happens when protein and starch reach the stomach together
Almost everyone has heard some version of the rule: meat on one plate, potatoes on another.
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