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Why Everyone Needs to Shut Up About Kale Already
Sure, kale's pretty good for you, but this is overkill. And this whole time, we may have just fallen for some clever rebranding of a bland leafy green.
Meet the Latin Diva Chopping Her Way Through Gender Norms
Soraya Sobreidad is the host of an amateur YouTube cooking show that blends healthy techniques with Latin cuisine. But it took a long, painful journey for Jaime Montalvo—Soraya's other self—to discover the diva that she has become today.
'Fitness Foods' Could Actually Be Making You Fatter
Just in case you're still operating under the delusion that you can eat—and only eat—your way to health, take this as a gentle reminder that you're dead wrong. "Fitness" food might actually make you fatter.
This Chef Is Celebrating Native American Heritage with Tacos
With no processed sugar, meat or flour, the Tatanka food truck serves healthy Native American dishes. Minneapolis chef Sean Sherman hopes the venture will help indigenous diners reconnect with their culinary heritage.
The American South Is Still Eating White Dirt
Geophagy, the technical term for deliberately eating earth, soil, or clay, sounds like a terrible idea. Yet in many parts of the world, this is not considered strange or rare, but a culinary past time.
Chamomile Tea Might Protect You from Dropping Dead
While mom wisdom has long held that chamomile is an effective folk remedy for calming you down on bad days that verge on nigh-postal rage, the gentle daisy-like flower may have another power: keeping you alive.
How-To: Make Fried Vegetables with Amanda Cohen
Amanda Cohen of NYC's Dirt Candy shows us some of her favorite recipes for deep-fried veggies and proves that they can be surprisingly healthy.
The Time Big Tobacco Reinterpreted the Koran to Try to Lure Muslim Smokers
A review of tobacco industry documents show Big Tobacco tried really hard to convince Muslims smoking wasn't haram.
An Apple a Day Doesn't Do Shit
An actual study published by an esteemed medical journal has concluded that your daily Red Delicious does not, in fact, keep the doctor away.
How-To: Make A Vegan Watermelon Cake with Cata.Pirata
Cata.Pirata—frontwoman of the band Skip & Die—shows us how she makes her favorite treat: a super-healthy, raw, vegan tropical cake made with watermelon.
The Middle East Really Likes Vegan Snack Bars
While British diners were busy gorging on Ottolenghi and tabbouleh, the Middle East developed a taste for dairy and gluten-free UK imports.
Your Healthy Eating New Year's Resolution Is Totally Backfiring
A new study shows that despite increased sales in healthy food after the New Year, most people are just piling it on top of all the other garbage they eat.