Tagged Health

The link between the types of food and drink you consume and the resulting effect on your body is well documented, and obviously, when looking to become the healthiest version of yourself possible, eating the...

Environmental justice and health movements raise awareness of the insidious nature of everyday chemical exposures and their alarming consequences for the health of our bodies and natural environments.

White Americans live on average 3.6 years longer than black Americans. If you look only at men, the difference becomes 4.4 years. As I found in a recent study, the main reason behind this disparity is that...

This is the inaugural article for my new open-science journal venture, Orgcomplexity. It was published as "Uncertainty, health and the teetering social contract." I am excited to be the Founding editor....

How did we come to be in this moment, when breastfeeding is both increasingly mandatory and simultaneously impossible, burdensome and laborious?

We are not meant to live forever. But for as long as life has existed, organisms have been battling to forestall death by any means possible. The diet industry has promised many things--but can it add...

A closer look at what happens when we eat wasabi and other spicy foods has unlocked new possibilities for pain management.