Exercise can be beneficial to myriad health issues, and medical experts say that is partly due to controlling inflammation within our bodies.
| Daniel Grossman
Experts are offering tips on how to include the entire family in New Year's resolutions to eat healthier.
| Scripps News Staff
If you've seen before-and-after shots with the hashtag #12330 on social media, they're doing this workout.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's proposed changes include testing chickens and turkeys for salmonella before they enter the slaughterhouse.
| AP
The CDC predicts life expectancy to grow for Americans in the next few years from 76 years old to about 85 years old.
| Lindsey Theis and Maya Saenz
Life expectancy is a key metric used to determine the heath of a country. The World Bank says it's improving around the world.
Newsy's Heath and Science correspondent Lindsey Theis looks into whether nutrition advice is helpful or confusing.
Wendy's says the lettuce used in its salads is different and not affected by its decision to pull the lettuce from sandwiches.
| AP and Scripps News Staff
Clean eating can mean different things for different people, but the influence of social media on diet trends is ever-changing, from gluten to dairy.
| Scripps News Staff
Whether it’s smoked, cured, barbecued, or fried — why is meat so hard for us to resist?
| Emily Grossberg and Cat Sandoval
Studies show the industry may be booming, because people are looking to move on from the stress of the pandemic.
| Emily Grossberg
Researchers have linked obesity with higher rates of heart and liver disease. Obesity raises one’s risk of COVID-19 and many cancers.
| Scripps News Staff and Lindsey Theis
Scientists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst found the number of daily steps needed for a long life varies by age.
| James Packard and Scripps News Staff
California has made a food recycling program mandatory, where residents have to separate compostables from the rest of the trash.
Fitness fanatics are creating art while tracking their runs and bike rides on their phones, mapping their city into a masterpiece.
Restaurants like Buona Beef in Chicago are giving their menus a makeover as diners search for more plant-based options.
The teen lost more than 100 pounds after his initial diagnosis.
| WRTV
The Idaho-based nonprofit delivers excess food to organizations in need.
| KIVI
Food rescue groups are using apps to help connect volunteer drivers to grocers and restaurants that would otherwise throw away extra food.
New nutritional guidelines recommend feeding only breast milk for babies' first six months and avoiding added sugar until children turn 2.
| Scripps News Staff
One of the biggest COVID risk factors is obesity. Growing numbers of obese people are now turning to surgery.
Older Europeans who ate a modified Mediterranean diet had more healthy gut bacteria than those who didn't, among other improvements.
| Antoinette Miller
A different type of gym is popping up that offers a variety of mindfulness options or ways to train your brain.
The World Health Organization found 81% of adolescents worldwide aren't getting enough exercise, and that there's a gender gap for activity worldwide.
The study found people who drank two or more glasses of soda per day had a higher chance of dying from all types of ailments.
| Ahmed Jawadi
"Food swamp" is a term for communities that aren't just lacking access to good food, they're swamped with bad food choices.
| Cliff Judy
It's not just the stigma of calling a community a "desert." It's taking an incredibly complex problem and boiling it down to income and space.
| Cliff Judy
Food stylist Lisa Cherkasky shows Newsy's Chance Seales around her dream job.
It's hard to calculate how many U.S. urban farms exist. A variety of factors contribute to urban farming’s measurable effects.
Unpublished findings from FDA researchers detected synthetic substances known as PFAS chemicals at some U.S. food production facilities.
| Cristina Mutchler
The same process used to help wean patients off ventilators may be helpful in short workouts to improve heart and brain health.
You may not have to do crunches, burpees, or even break a sweat to get a workout. Some researchers say any activity counts. But how do you count it?
This nonprofit gym offers free workouts to anyone 48 hours sober, and it's helped more than 20,000 people in 20 states.
The CDC warns raw cookie dough, cake mixes and batter may contain salmonella and E. coli.
| Audrey Esther
