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One Man’s Story of Eating-Disorder Recovery (Video)
Brian Cuban spoke recently about being a grown man with bulimia and anorexia nervosa; about the shock it elicits when he brings up his diagnoses, and the childhood relationships and family dynamics...
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World Health Organization: No, Seriously, Stop Abusing Antibiotics (Video)
“The problem is so serious that it threatens the achievements of modern medicine. A post-antibiotic era—in which common infections and minor injuries can kill—far from being an apocalyptic fantasy, is...
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Dead or Meditating?
One of the wealthiest spiritual leaders in India has either been dead or in a transcendental meditative state since January. The Telegraph‘s Dean Nelson reports from New Delhi that a court has now been...
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The ‘Miracle’ Berry That Could Replace Sugar (Video)
As a chef and entrepreneur, Homaro Cantu has a reputation for an avant-garde approach to gastronomy. He believes the answer to one day eliminating sugar from our diets lies in a protein known as...
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The Ice Diet (Video)
When he became determined to lose weight, Dr. Brian Weiner decided to change his eating and exercise regimes. “One of the first changes I made,” explains Weiner, a gastroenterologist in New Jersey and...
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Single-Tasking Is the New Multitasking (Video)
Trying to do too many internet things at once makes it hard to get anything done at all. Tabless Thursday is a vacation from distraction. Courtesy of The Atlantic *Image of “multitasking” via...
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Art Is Vital (Video)
It has been three years since the spectacular video of Lil Buck dancing to Yo-Yo Ma brought jookin—which draws from hip-hop, ballet, jazz, and modern dance—into mainstream consciousness. Ma would later...
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Meats: A Health Hierarchy
In case you’ve not yet purchased your weekend meat, here is a pretty harrowing/empowering case for choosing chicken instead of beef when you can. About a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions come from...
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Stressful Relationships vs Isolation: The Battle for Our Lives
“In your everyday life, do you experience conflicts with any of the following people?” Partner Children Other family Friends Neighbors A Danish health survey asked almost 10,000 people between ages 36...
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Wine Is Healthy. Isn’t It? It is. No? (Video)
James Hamblin prepares to impress his date with knowledge about the health benefits of wine. This article was originally published on www.theatlantic.com *Image of “wine“via Shutterstock
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The Myth of Wealthy Men and Pretty Women
In one illustrious study of love (“human sexual selection”) in 1986, psychologists David Buss and Michael Barnes asked people to rank 76 characteristics: What do you value most in a potential mate? The...
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The Creativity Pill
Neurologist Rivka Inzelberg recently noticed that her patients with Parkinson’s disease seemed to be authoring more novels than older people tend to author. Looking closer, poems and paintings also...
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Most People Think Alzheimer’s Is a Normal Part of Aging (Video)
A multinational survey released today found that 59 percent of people incorrectly believe that Alzheimer’s disease is a typical part of aging. “People misunderstand that Alzheimer’s really is a...
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The Health Benefits of Trees
It is becoming increasingly clear that trees help people live longer, healthier, happier lives—to the tune of $6.8 billion in averted health costs annually in the U.S., according to research published...
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The Recovering Americans and the ‘Top Secret’ Ebola Treatment (Video)
Because Ebola is notoriously incurable (and the strain at large its most lethal), it is overwhelming to hear that “Secret Serum Likely Saved Ebola Patients,” as we did this Tuesday morning from Dr....
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Email Is Ruining Us: A Brilliant Solution
The amount of time we spend on email—and the stress it generates—are unsustainable. Enter the “cool” button. This video was originally published on www.theatlantic.com. *Image of “cowboy” via...
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Robin Williams Lived Intensely
Robin Williams is dead at 63. The comedian carried insecurity and self-doubt with contagious intensity. He was so grandiose and wild that it would’ve irritated audiences to their cores had his eyes not...
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Juice Cleanses: The Worst Diet (Video)
A doctor tries the ever-popular Master Cleanse. Sort of. This video was originally published on www.theatlantic.com *Image of “juice” via Shutterstock
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Do We Look Fat in These Suburbs?
Like so many environmental factors whose health influence might not be readily apparent (e.g. the trees that save us billions of dollars in medical costs), they seem to be worth considering. Norman...
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Living Simply in a Dumpster
One professor left his home for a 36-square-foot open-air box, and he is happier for it. How much does a person really need? Tucked behind the women’s residence halls in a back corner of...
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CrossFit Versus Yoga: Choose a Side (Video)
How does a workout become a social identity? In some ways, it’s choosing a gym. In some ways, it’s choosing a life. This video was originally published on www.theatlantic.com *Image of “man” via...
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This Is Your Brain on Fish
Have you ever considered undergoing brain-thickening surgery, only to find that such a thing does not exist? And that the guy in the van was probably not actually a surgeon? Well, consider fish. Dr....
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‘I Couldn’t Smell, and Then I Died’
This week surgeons at the University of Chicago found that the strength of a person’s ability to identify odors is an eerily excellent predictor of impending death. Collaborating between their...
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The Introverted Face
In light of many recent articles touting people’s judgmental abilities, Olivola and Princeton University’s Friederike Funk and Alexander Todorov say that a careful look at the data really doesn’t...
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Health Tip: Find Purpose in Life
There are a handful of junctures in life when a person’s sense of purpose is prone to twinkle and fade. In unemployment or professional stagnation; in financial or romantic straits, or after the death...
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How Long Do You Want to Live?
Dr. Zeke Emanuel recently announced that he will stop receiving life-prolonging medical care at age 75. James Hamblin tries to understand why. What is the meaning of life? This video was originally...
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The Case for Napping at Work
Most Americans don’t get enough sleep. More and more employers are trying to help address that. This video was originally published on www.theatlantic.com
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Answers to Every Possible Thanksgiving Health Question, 2014
If I run a Turkey Trot in the morning can I eat the turkey skin? —Sophie Gilbert, Washington, DC You know I am pro skin, even gravy-filled skin bowls. I thought my town was the only one with a Turkey...
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Chocolate, Memory Food
At Scientific Sessions 2014, a meeting of the American Heart Association in sunny Chicago, doctors announced results of a study that found the link between eating foods high in these specific fats and...
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You Can’t ‘Turn Fat Into Muscle’
This is where people think fat goes when it’s “lost” (Meerman/BMJ) Most people are wrong, according to physicist Ruben Meerman and biochemist Andrew Brown. Their calculations were published yesterday...
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How to Cook Spaghetti Squash (And Why)
Cooking for yourself is one of the surest ways to eat well. Bestselling author Mark Bittman teaches James Hamblin the recipe that everyone is Googling. This video was originally published on...
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Attention: A Muscle to Strengthen
Amit Sood‘s website, stressfree.org, is couched in the self-help jargon that scientists instinctively dismiss. So it’s especially interesting that Sood is a physician, a professor of medicine at the...
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The ‘Supplement’ Illusion
Many pills and capsules sold as herbal “supplements” contain little more than powdered rice and house plants, according to a report released Monday by the office of New York state attorney general...
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Eggs Are Back: The Elegant Simplicity of the New Diet Guidelines
Eggs are back, indeed, as many headlines were celebrating yesterday. And aspartame is probably okay in moderation, though artificial sweeteners should not be promoted in approaches to weight loss....
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Cold, Dark, and Happy
“Alaskans are the best in the nation in terms of exercise,” explained Dan Witters, a research director at the polling agency Gallup, in making the case that Alaska is the nation’s new bastion of...
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A Brewing Problem
Almost one in three American homes now has a pod-based coffee machine, even though John Sylvan, the inventor of K-Cups, never imagined they would be used outside of offices. Last year K-Cups accounted...
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The Absurd Psychology of Restaurant Menus
Would people eat healthier if celery was called “cool celery?” James Hamblin investigates the logic of food names with Arthur Meyer, the co-author of FUDS. This video was originally published on...
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The Man Who Almost Died From Drinking (Too Much) Tea
What causes an otherwise healthy person to develop a dramatic renal failure? “On further questioning, the patient admitted to drinking 16 eight-ounce glasses of iced tea daily.” And then it made...
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The Psychology of Healthy Facebook Use: No Comparing to Other Lives
Do you ever go to parties just to look at beautiful people and listen to them chatter about their lovely lives? Lives punctuated only occasionally by some glitch—maybe a death in the family, or a...
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Cryotherapy: The Dubious Appeal of Shooting -260 Degree Nitrogen at Your...
More and more people are trying cryotherapy. They believe freezing themselves helps treat an array of illnesses, but James Hamblin is doubtful. He visited Kryolife in New York City to see what the fuss...
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What’s This Bone Broth People Are Drinking?
Carrying around a coffee cup full of hot meat stock is somehow cool, as James Hamblin learned when he visited Fleisher’s Craft Butchery in Brooklyn. It may not have the health benefits some people...
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How to Cook a Real Chicken Nugget (and Why)
A group of chefs in New York is teaching public schools how to make healthier versions of classic lunches—using only the ingredients available in cafeterias. In this episode of “If Our Bodies Could...
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Free Sunscreen: Miami Beach to Put 50 Dispensers in Public Spaces
If you walk along South Beach right now, you might notice something strange, even by Florida standards: Dotting the sandscapes are sky-blue boxes that supply free sunscreen. In a novel experiment this...
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The Fallacies of ‘Brain Training’
Writer Patricia Marx (Saturday Night Live, The New Yorker) tried every brain-enhancing product she could find. She tells James Hamblin about trading memory for wisdom in this video episode. This video...
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Dad Heaviness Quantified
If there’s one aspect of the child-rearing process that deserves more attention and consideration, it’s the effects on the male body. No no, but there is a study out today that looked at 10,253 men and...
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The Importance of Being Naked (Video)
Melanoma is one of the most treatable forms of cancer when it’s detected early. Still, it is among the leading causes of death by cancer, and mortality rates are no better than they were 20 years ago....
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How to Stop Using the Term ‘Screen Time’
News media are constantly panicking about the health effects of “screen time,” but almost anything can be done on a screen. Is lumping them all together under one name–and issuing warnings and official...
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Tinder for Exercise: The Case for Workout Partners
Working out with someone you perceive to be “better” than you has been found to lead to 200 percent increases in intensity and time spent exercising. That’s not to mention the health benefits of social...
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One Expensive Trick That Might Somewhat Improve a Hangover
If you go to the emergency room after acute alcohol intoxication (hungover), you’ll be given IV hydration. In mild cases, a nurse can now bring that hydration to your office. In this episode of If Our...
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The Money Spent Selling Sugar to Americans Is Staggering
Despite the fact that fruits and vegetables are the only foods that experts encourage us to eat with abandon, all fruits, vegetables, and nuts are considered “specialty crops” by the U.S. Department...
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