Tag Archives: Food

When a study last month linked drinking lots of fizzy drinks to hair loss, it underlined the crucial role of diet in a condition affecting millions. Now experts have revealed other everyday foods that could have a similar effect – including pasta, sliced bread and nuts. Healthy hair needs a steady supply of nutrients, and although illness and genetics play …

Investors are bullish about buying now and paying later. The Swedish fintech firm Klarna just went public and was the largest IPO of 2025 so far, according to Renaissance Capital. But for Klarna cofounder and CEO Sebastian Siemiatkowski, the journey to success has been decades in the making—and couldn’t be further away from a straight line. In fact, it took …

Mayeni JonesAfrica correspondent, Johannesburg BBC Pupils at the Kairos School of Inquiry are served healthy, mainly vegetarian, meals It’s lunchtime in the leafy grounds of the Kairos School of Inquiry in Randburg, South Africa. Dozens of children line up excitedly in front of a table laden with large pots of fresh, hot food. “Today on the menu we have kitchari …

Food consumption can be turned off in mice by silencing neurons in a particular brain area. Credit: Ricardo Ribas/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Scientists have identified a ‘brain dial’ that can turn food consumption on or off, at least in mice. The effect of this brain region is so powerful that when scientists manipulated it, mice that were already full kept eating — …

This Woman’s Husband Packed Her Dog Food For Lunch, And TikTok Is In Shambles So, millions of people were recently curious when TikToker @kaitlynnjb recorded herself unpacking the lunch her husband packed her after she forgot hers one day. Her TikTok has gone so viral that it is being shared on multiple other platforms like Reddit, X, and Instagram, racking …

You can learn a lot about people by studying their trash, including populations that lived thousands of years ago. In what the team calls the “largest study of its kind,” researchers applied this principle to Britain’s iconic middens, or giant prehistoric trash (excuse me, rubbish) piles. Their analysis revealed that at the end of the Bronze Age (2,300 to 800 …

Healthy eating often feels like a moving target. Advice flips, trends flare up, and people are left unsure about what actually supports the heart. A careful look at spicy food offers a clear signal worth your attention. A new population analysis from Sichuan Province, China, tracked adults and linked frequent chili intake to lower rates of major heart and brain …

Eating lots of meat and drinking sugary fizzy drinks speeds up the onset of dementia and other chronic illnesses, a major 15-year study has found. Scientists tracked nearly 2,500 older adults and discovered that those with the unhealthiest diets – high in red and processed meat, such as bacon and burgers, and carbonated drinks – developed brain and heart conditions …

An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: For decades, scientists believed Prochlorococcus, the smallest and most abundant phytoplankton on Earth, would thrive in a warmer world. But new research suggests the microscopic bacterium, which forms the foundation of the marine food web and helps regulate the planet’s climate, will decline sharply as seas heat up. A study …

A new study shows that ultra-processed foods (UPFs) can harm men’s health in a trio of notable ways: through weight gain, through the disruption of natural hormones, and through a reduction in sperm quality. The researchers behind the study, led by a team from the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, wanted to see if the processed nature of food makes …