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Joe Skipper / Reuters The Fading Meaning of ‘GMO'
The National Academy of Sciences is urging people to focus less on the process and more on the product.
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters The Harm in Blindly ‘Going Gluten Free’
It is not an innocuous decision.
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Should You Map Your Microbiome?
The health implications of knowing your microbes could be enormous. But for now, personal microbe mapping is too preliminary to take seriously.
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Mary Altaffer / AP Concerns About Folate Causing Autism Are Premature
Yesterday’s press release was potentially dangerous.
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Laszlo Balogh / Reuters A Better Way to Read
In the era of attention deficits, the new text will not be black and white.
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To Break a Phone Addiction, Turn Your Screen Gray
A suggestion for compulsive checkers
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Vasily Fedosenko / Reuters Harvard Has a New Center for Happiness
There's more to health than the absence of disease.
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Fight the New Drug / Facebook Inside the Movement to Declare Pornography a ‘Health Crisis’
Newly intensifying anti-porn campaigns are mixing conservative and liberal principles, science, and ideology.
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The Big-Data Quest to Treat Every Disease
Inside Obama's new initiative to personalize health care
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How to Defend Being Vegan
Russell Simmons on advocating the world’s most pretentious diet
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George Takei on Fighting Hate With Humor
“Whatever spot on the political spectrum you occupy, we all find fairly common things funny.”
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A Gym for Mindfulness
Drop in and meditate, any time.
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Santi Palacios / AP The Physiological Power of Altruism
People who volunteer lead longer, healthier lives. Some public-health experts believe the time has come for doctors to recommend it alongside diet and exercise.
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Thomas Peter / Reuters Are Antibiotics Making People Larger?
Overuse of the drugs seems to make us gain weight—even when we don't take them.
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Can I Overdose on Vitamin D?
A question for The Atlantic’s in-house doctor
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Lucy Nicholson / Reuters Kind Bars to U.S. Government: Redefine ‘Healthy’
A snack-food company stumbled into a glaring loophole in the federal definition of healthfulness.
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A Perfect Jump
Sparta Science is building superior athletes.
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Body Doubles: A New Way to Work From Home
The perks of being physically present. The perks of not being physically present.
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The Jeopardy! Machine Wants to Cook for You
Minimize food waste by preparing and eating food.
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The Future of Protein Will Not Be Animal Meat
New plant-based meats are an exciting development for nutrition and the environment.