Mark Mattson, a neuroscientist at the National Institute on Aging in Maryland, has not had breakfast in 35 years. Most days he practices a form of fasting — skipping lunch, taking a midafternoon run, and then eating all of his daily calories (about 2,000) in a six-hour window starting in the afternoon. “Once you get […]
On its “Morning Edition” segment, NPR (2/29, Kodjak) reports a poll it conducted along with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health revealed just “one-third of Americans say the health care they receive is ‘excellent,’” and an even lower number said they “are impressed with the system as […]
Obese children who cut back on their sugar intake see improvements in their blood pressure, cholesterol readings and other markers of health after just 10 days, a rigorous new study found. The new research may help shed light on a question scientists have long debated: Is sugar itself harming health, or is the weight gain […]