Phosphorus is the second-most abundant mineral in the human body, but when I started indexing it across the USDA FoodData Central (FDC) dataset for HealthSavvyG...
Manganese keeps showing up at the bottom of my USDA FoodData Central queries — not because it is scarce, but because almost no one runs the query. As the ...
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Building HealthSavvyGuide on top of USDA FoodData Central, I aggregated nutrient profiles for over 1,465 foods. While indexing the data, I noticed something str...
Raw spinach delivers 194 µg DFE folate per 100 g (USDA FDC ID 168462). Photo: Pexels. When I started building HealthSavvyGuide on top of the USDA FoodData Cent...
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Fruit and Vegetable Supplements: Are They Worth It? A Practical, Evidence-Based Guide You've probably seen them lining the shelves at your local health store...
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My therapist charges $190 per session. She also tells me things I do not want to hear. Last month she pointed out — with what I can only describe as compassio...
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My Neighbor Swears His Nightly Joint Cured His Anxiety and I Did Not Have the Heart to Argue Greg — that is my upstairs neighbor, the one who does tai chi on...
My friend Rachel sent me a screenshot last Wednesday. It was an Instagram ad — glossy, professional, the kind that looks like it cost someone $12,000 to produ...
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Here is something that happened to my friend Karen last month. She woke up at 3 AM with chest tightness, shortness of breath, and tingling in her left arm. Inst...
My mother is 72 and has started forgetting names. Not in the dramatic, movie-style way — more like pausing mid-sentence, reaching for a word that used to come...
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I used to take seven supplements every morning. Seven. Vitamin D, vitamin C, a B-complex, fish oil, magnesium, zinc, and a multivitamin "just to cover the bases...
If you follow weight loss drug news even casually — and at this point, who does not — you probably saw the headlines this week: Novo Nordisk has dropped its...
Last September, I went in for my annual physical. Everything came back normal. Blood pressure: fine. Cholesterol: fine. Blood sugar: fine. My doctor said I was ...
Last year, a third-party lab found that 15% of protein powders they tested contained measurable amounts of heavy metals. Lead. Arsenic. Cadmium. In the powder p...