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It appears that president Donald Trump's years of fast food and snack guzzling may have finally caught up to him, for the whole world to see.

Trump’s Limbs Are Looking Awfully Swollen

By Noor Al-Sibai

A six-month clinical trial found that whole foods are much for effective fuel for weight loss compared to their ultraprocessed counterparts.

Scientists Fed One Group of People Ultraprocessed Foods and Another Group Whole Foods, and the Difference in What Happened to Them Was Wild

In a one-of-a-kind new study, researchers have linked diets high in fat and sugar with lower cognitive skills.

Test Shows Junk Food’s Alarming Impact on Human Cognition

By Noor Al-Sibai

Scientists believe they may have found the reason why some people get so sick the contrast dye you get before an MRI.

MRI Scans Causing Nasty Material to Form Inside Body, Scientists Find

By Noor Al-Sibai

To lose weight, one woman decided to eat nothing but canned sardines for three months — and apparently, it's working out great for her.

Woman With Stomach of Steel Eats Nothing But Cans of Sardines and Somehow Survived to Tell the Tale

By Noor Al-Sibai

A new study found that certain vegetarian and vegan diets curb risks of life-threatening illnesses like cancer and heart disease.

Huge Study Finds That Vegetarian and Vegan Diets Are Incredibly Good for You

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A study suggests that your mother's diet during pregnancy is a big factor in how your facial features are shaped.

Pregnant Women’s Diet Affects Facial Features of Their Children, Scientists Find

By Sharon Adarlo

A study found that practitioners of intermittent fasting who fasted for at least 16 hours a day had a higher risk of dying from heart disease

Intermittent Fasting Linked to Vastly Increased Chance of Heart Attack and Stroke

By Frank Landymore

A diet with lots of meat and processed foods is linked to developing Alzheimer's Disease, according to a new study.

Delicious Foods Linked to Alzheimer’s Disease

By Sharon Adarlo

A team of French scientists has linked refined carbohydrates to worse cognitive function — even when consumed by young, healthy adults.

Refined Carbs Linked to Brain Trouble

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Health & Medicine

Scientists Puzzled by Super Muscular Man Who Eats a Pound of Raw Liver Every Day

By Lonnie Lee Hood

While children in the US are taught what to eat, many of them never actually find out where the food they eat on a daily basis actually comes from.

Science & Energy

40 Percent of American Children Think Hot Dogs Are Vegetables

By Victor Tangermann

In a massive review of existing mouse research, scientists linked a high-sugar, high-fat diet to cognitive impairments later in life.

Mice Fed Fast Food Get Noticeably Stupider, Scientists Warn

By Dan Robitzski

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Scientists Link Eating This Common Baseball Stadium Food With Dementia Risk

By Dan Robitzski

A new breathalyzer called the Keyto can help people on the keto diet track how well they're doing at cutting carbs out of their diets.

Health & Medicine

A $100 Breathalyzer Can Tell if You’re Sneaking Carbs

By Dan Robitzski

Researchers found they could stop mosquitoes biting by giving them human diet pills dissolved in saline.

To Stop Mosquitoes From Biting, Scientists Put Them on Diet Pills