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Your diet soft drink habit may not be as healthy as you think. Here are three ways to cut back.
Research is clear that what we eat can drive our test preferences as early as 2 years of age.
Studying how contemporary apples have changed drastically from their origins and preserving wild varieties can help maintain their diversity.
Plus, a lawyer explains the legal battle over Canada’s discriminatory First Nations child welfare system. Listen to The Conversation Weekly.
If you ever feel like you can’t stop eating sugar, you are responding precisely as programmed by natural selection. What was once an evolutionary advantage has a different effect today.
Just because something is sweet doesn’t necessarily mean it is sugary. There are a number of molecules that taste sweet. To understand how and why takes a little bit of chemistry.
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