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More than 3,600 chemicals that leach into food during the manufacturing, processing, packaging and storage of the world’s food supply end up in the human body — and some are connected to ...
How do we determine how healthy our food is? We know now that our nutrition shouldn't just be measured in calories, or even ...
A major review finds plastic particles enter food through packaging, processing, and repeated use—explaining how they end up ...
Hoping to someday stave off immune rejection after xenotransplantation, researchers at New York University's Langone ...
The hunting and gathering activities of early humans required a high-calorie diet consisting of a variety of ...
That plastic wrap you find around the food you eat is far from benign: A new study shows that more than 3,600 chemicals leach into food during the packaging process. Top News U.S. News ...
Wisdom teeth helped early humans gnaw through raw roots and tough meats, but today, they’re little more than an expensive dental complication since our food is more processed.
Researchers from Switzerland and other countries discovered that of the roughly 14,000 known chemicals in food packaging, 3,601 — or about 25 percent — have been found in the human body ...
PFAS have been linked with a range of health issues including decreased fertility, developmental delays in children, and a ...
A study of 780,000-year-old food remains has shed light on the diets of prehistoric human hunter-gatherers. The research has revealed that hominins—a group containing modern humans plus our ...
A common food dye can turn the skin of living mice transparent, but we don't yet know if it'll work in humans. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission ...
Food packaging, serving, and processing materials contain 14,402 known chemicals that people might consume, but the full extent of human exposure was not clear.