Nutrition

Subsisting on an all-supplement diet is obviously far from anyone's ideal. But for a lot of us, every day we take what we consider to be key supplements — vitamin D, essential fatty acids, probiotics, etc — to contribute to our long-term health.

Your guide to the nutritional value of over 425 foods....

This past weekend, Science-ish was disappointed to read Margaret Wente’s column on health evidence, in which she opened: “Today’s health wisdom has a way of becoming tomorrow’s bunk… This may help explain why all the standard diet and exercise advice is worthless.”

Achieve your weight loss efforts with these smart snacking habits. And an apple and cinnamon mini-muffins recipe to help curb your cravings

Your baby doesn't just hear your voice in utero - he tastes your food, too. That's right - every ice-cream binge (and valiant substitute fruit-and-veggie binge) trickles down through the amniotic fluid into your baby's mouth, setting them up to like what you've been eating. Could this mean you're responsible for them turning up their noses at vegetables?