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Health Treat your gut to some roughage. In a study in mice, researchers found that just a week on a low-fiber diet caused a drastic shift in gut microbes, which could lead to diseases over time.
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Health Dairy fat may be saturated, but it's not unhealthy the way animal fats are. Not all fats are created equal. There’s the dangerous trans fats, the healthy unsaturated fats, and the middling...
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Health A new study shows subsidized fruits and vegetables could also prevent millions of cases of cardiovascular disease. Subsidizing fruits, vegetables, and other healthy foods under Medicare and...
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Health Taxing soda could be an extremely effective strategy to reduce the country's consumption of the sugar-laden beverages. In January 2017, Philadelphia became the second United States city to tax...
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