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TikTok ‘Diet’ of the Week: The Ice Hack for Weight Loss Is an Ad for a Dumb Supplement

TikTok is full of weight loss “hacks,” most of them misleading, overblown, just plain wrong, or recycled from misinformation of…

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Why You Should Stop Eating Raw Oysters

You’ve probably seen headlines like this (“Raw Oysters Linked to Two Deaths”) at some point: It’s not the first time…

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Make These Cheap and Healthy Meals With Stuff Already in Your Pantry

I love a pantry meal. No worrying about whether you’ll get a chance to make it before the ingredients go…

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TikTok Myth of the Week: There’s Plastic on Your Lettuce

The industrial-scale systems that grow and process our food can be strange and scary sometimes. But as we saw with…

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Why You Don’t Need to Refrigerate Peanut Butter

I grew up in a PB-in-the-fridge household. Every other jar that’s been opened lives in the fridge, so why not…

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The Best Water Filters to Remove ‘Forever Chemicals’

As senior health editor Beth Skwarecki once said, you can’t avoid “forever chemicals” in your life (they’re already in 45%…

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MSG Isn’t Actually Bad for You

If you’re still afraid of the seasoning MSG giving you headaches, you’ve bought into a decades-old myth: MSG isn’t causing…

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TikTok Myth of the Week: Bananas Destroy the Nutrients in Smoothies

TikTok loves a banana smoothie. In a few minutes of scrolling you can see smoothie recipes, banana-freezing tips (peel it…

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Why Washing Lettuce Doesn’t Get Rid of E. Coli

Leafy greens have been the carriers for dozens of outbreaks of food poisoning in recent years. The CDC recently linked…

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What Is BVO, and Why Is the FDA Banning It in Drinks?

It’s pretty much an American tradition that the FDA only bans a controversial ingredient after companies have mostly stopped using…

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