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  • Cooking, Food, and Beverage

    The biology of coffee, the world’s most popular drink

    January 19, 2020

    You’re reading this with a cup of coffee in your hand, aren’t you? Coffee is the most popular drink in the world. Americans drink more coffee than soda, juice and tea — combined.

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    Thomas Merritt
  • Addiction and Drugs,  Cooking, Food, and Beverage

    New Year’s anxiety hangover? Here’s what’s happening in your brain

    January 1, 2020

    Have you ever woken up in the morning (or afternoon) in a cloud of worry after having a few drinks the night before?

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    Amy Reichelt
  • Cooking, Food, and Beverage

    How junk food shapes the developing teenage brain

    December 11, 2019

    Obesity is increasing worldwide, especially among children and teenagers. More than 150 million children in the world are obese in 2019. These children have increased risk of heart disease, cancers and Type 2 diabetes.

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    Amy Reichelt
  • Cooking, Food, and Beverage,  Everyday Household Dangers

    In search of safe replacements for harmful chemicals used in cookware, carpets, clothing, cosmetics and more

    March 26, 2018

    When Donald Taves discovered two kinds of fluoride in his blood in the late 1960s, he immediately knew something was wrong. Everyone assumed that blood contained just one type of fluoride, a naturally occurring form that health officials added to drinking water to prevent cavities. But levels in people’s blood didn’t seem to relate to those found in their water…

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    Liza Gross
  • Cooking, Food, and Beverage,  Everyday Household Dangers,  Health Politics

    Most Americans drink fluoridated water. Is that a good thing?

    November 17, 2017

    If you’re like many Americans, you drink fluoridated water without questioning its safety or efficacy. For decades municipalities have been adding fluoride to water supplies to reduce the incidence of tooth decay at the advice of numerous highly credentialed entities, including the World Health Organization, the U.S. Public Health Service, the American Dental Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics.

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    Susannah Shmurak
  • Cooking, Food, and Beverage,  Environment

    Which diet makes best use of farmland? You might be surprised.

    July 22, 2016

    Vegetarian? Omnivore? Vegan? What should we eat if we want to feed a growing population while minimizing the need to farm more land? We know that meat-based meals require more farmland than plant-based ones. But which diet is the best fit for the mix of croplands and grazing land that supports agriculture today? That’s a different question with a potentially…

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    Kristen Satre Meyer
  • Cooking, Food, and Beverage,  Environment

    The developing world is awash in pesticides. Does it have to be?

    June 22, 2016

    In today’s globalized world, it is not inconceivable that one might drink coffee from Colombia in the morning, munch cashews from Vietnam for lunch and gobble grains from Ethiopia for dinner. That we can enjoy these products is thanks, in large part, to expanded pesticide use across the developing world.

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    Aleszu Bajak
  • Cooking, Food, and Beverage,  Environment

    Who’s keeping organic food honest?

    November 23, 2015

    If you live in the U.S., chances are you are among the 84 percent of American consumers who purchase organic food. Whether you buy it at the grocery store or the farmers market, you trust that food marketed as organic has been raised without toxic chemicals, using farming methods that are environmentally sustainable. At a minimum, you expect organic farmers…

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    Liz Carlisle
  • Cooking, Food, and Beverage,  Environment

    What to do about the antidepressants, antibiotics, and other drugs in our water

    August 11, 2015

    There’s no way around it, the headlines are disturbing. And they come, not from tabloids or click-bait blogs, but from papers published in scientific journals. They describe fish and birds responding with altered behavior and reproductive systems to antidepressants, diabetes medication, and other psychoactive or hormonally active drugs at concentrations found in the environment. They report on opiods, amphetamines and…

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    Elizabeth Grossman
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