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Shorter days are affecting the mood of millions of Americans - a nutritional neuroscientist offers tips to avoid the winter blues

Shorter days are affecting the mood of millions of Americans – a nutritional neuroscientist offers tips to avoid the winter blues

The annual pattern of winter depression and melancholy — better known as seasonal affective disorder, or SAD — suggests a strong link between your mood and the amount of light you get during the day. To put it simply: the less light you are exposed to, the more your mood can decline. The winter blues …

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Telling Americans to “eat better” doesn’t work. We need to make healthier food | Marc Bitman

DEti-related chronic diseases are the number one perennial killer in the United States, responsible for more deaths than Covid-19, even at the height of the pandemic. Yet we fail to define this as a “crisis”. In fact, our answer is lame: For decades, we’ve been telling people to “eat better,” a strategy that hasn’t worked …

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Americans are eating more whole grains, but are still confused by food labels

Americans are eating more whole grains, but are still confused by food labels

It’s not uncommon to see packages of bread, crackers, cereal, or pasta with a stamp on the front, touting in big letters that it’s whole grain. In fact, they may not contain many real whole grains, according to a new study. An analysis of two decades of data on Americans’ diets found that people are …

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