Articles
Diets explained, single foods measured, and the popular claims about both checked against what the evidence will support.
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How to cook chickpeas: soaking, stovetop, Instant Pot and roasting, with the times
How to cook chickpeas from dried: soak 8 to 12 hours, simmer 1 to 1 1/2 hours, or 15 minutes in an Instant Pot...
- 11 min read
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The Mediterranean diet: what it is, why it keeps winning trials, and how to start
The Mediterranean diet is one of the most consistently supported eating patterns there is, and one of the leas...
- 7 min read
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Keto diet plan: what ketogenic actually means, and what it takes to get there
A keto diet plan is not low carb. It is very low carb — low enough to change which fuel your body runs on, and...
- 6 min read
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Keto flu: the symptoms, how long it lasts, and the salt that fixes it
Keto flu is mostly sodium and water, not detox — which is why the headache and fatigue of the first week respo...
- 6 min read
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The low FODMAP diet: a three-phase protocol for IBS, not a way to eat forever
The low FODMAP diet works well for IBS and it is designed to end. Staying in the elimination phase is the sing...
- 5 min read
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How to lose weight: the mechanism, the rate that holds, and the parts nobody sells
How to lose weight is not scientifically contested. Everything that varies between diets is about whether you...
- 7 min read
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Weight loss plateau and the yo-yo effect: why the weight stops moving, and then comes back
A weight loss plateau is arithmetic before it is biology, and regain is the normal outcome of a diet that ends...
- 6 min read
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Are all calories equal? Yes for weight, and no for almost everything else
Are all calories equal? For body weight, yes — a calorie is a unit of energy. For satiety, digestion and healt...
- 5 min read
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How much protein do I need? Targets, sources, and when a supplement earns its place
How much protein you need depends on what you are asking your body to do. The RDA answers a different question...
- 6 min read
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Avocado calories: how many are in one, and whether it matters
Avocado calories surprise people: a medium Hass is around 240. Whether that number is a problem depends entire...
- 5 min read
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How much water should I drink a day? The evidence behind the eight-glasses rule
How much water should you drink a day? Not eight glasses — that figure has no clear origin, and thirst tracks...
- 5 min read
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The food pyramid: what it got wrong, and what replaced it
The 1992 food pyramid was retired, and in 2026 a new one arrived upside down. The reasons the original went ar...
- 7 min read
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Diet myths: nine claims that will not go away, and what the evidence says
Every one of these diet myths has a grain of truth in it, which is precisely why they survive. Here is the gra...
- 6 min read
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The vegan diet: what to eat, and the four nutrient gaps that decide whether it works
Major dietetic bodies say a well-planned vegan diet is adequate at every stage of life. The planning comes dow...
- 10 min read
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Vitamin B12 foods and supplements: what has it, who runs short, and why it hides
B12 comes from bacteria, not plants. That one fact explains the food list, why vitamin B12 supplements exist,...
- 7 min read
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Iron-rich foods: the list, and why what you eat alongside them matters more
Foods high in iron are only half the answer. Two kinds of iron are absorbed at completely different rates, and...
- 7 min read
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The anti-inflammatory diet: which foods have evidence, and which are marketing
Chronic inflammation is real and diet genuinely influences it. Almost everything sold as an anti-inflammatory...
- 7 min read
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Calorie deficit: the formula, the right size, and why the arithmetic drifts
A calorie deficit is the mechanism behind every diet that works. The number everyone quotes for it is wrong af...
- 8 min read
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Intermittent fasting: the schedules, the evidence, and what it does not do better
Intermittent fasting works for weight loss, and works about as well as eating less any other way. That finding...
- 6 min read
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Healthy fats: monounsaturated, polyunsaturated, saturated, and what replaced what
The low-fat era treated a whole category as one substance. Which healthy fats to eat depends entirely on what...
- 6 min read