Shopping
Price per kilogram: the only comparable figure on a price tag
There are two numbers on a price tag.
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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
What to eat before a workout
The question "what to eat before a workout" is almost always actually a question of "how long before.
Recipes
Oven-roasted chicken: one batch for several days
Roasted chicken is the most practical meal prep there is: forty minutes of oven time covers your protein needs for lunch for three to four days.
Nutrition
Tea: how much caffeine is in it and what is known about its benefits
Black, green, oolong, and white teas are all the same leaf from the same plant, differing only in the degree of oxidation.
Ingredients and additives
Antioxidants: what they do to fat and why it spoils without them
There are two different ways for food to spoil.
Allergies
Allergens in restaurants and delivery: how to ask for a helpful response
Packaging includes mandatory ingredient lists and warnings about traces.
Shopping
Promotions and yellow price tags: how they work and when they are worth it
A yellow price tag works not because the price is low, but because it is high-contrast: the eye finds it before it reads the number.
Health
Body mass index: how to calculate it and where it goes wrong
Body mass index takes ten seconds to calculate and is therefore used where it shouldn't be: for an individual.
Health
Cholesterol in food: do eggs affect blood cholesterol
Cholesterol from food and cholesterol in blood tests are not the same substance in different places, but two weakly related values.
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