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 ...
Building HealthSavvyGuide on top of the USDA FoodData Central (FDC) API has given me a strange habit: I sort foods by trace minerals the way other developers so...
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Building HealthSavvyGuide on the USDA FoodData Central (FDC) API, I noticed something while running queries against the niacin field (FDC nutrient ID 1167): of ...
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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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This article is for informational purposes only and is not medical advice. The content is intended to share publicly available nutritional data from authoritat...
Medical Disclaimer: This article is for informational purposes only and is not medical advice. The content is based on publicly available nutritional data from...
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A BMI calculator is one of the most common health tools online because it is fast, simple, and easy to understand at a glance. You enter height and weight, and ...
I Ate a Fiber-First Breakfast for 21 Days and It Fixed the 10 AM Snack Spiral Better Than Any Wellness Hack I Have Tried I did not start this experiment becaus...
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I Started Taking Creatine as a 34-Year-Old Woman and the Gym Bros Were Confused — Here Is What 12 Weeks of Tracking Actually Showed Let me paint the scene. I...
Do Homemade Electrolyte Drinks Actually Work as Well as Gatorade? Yes — and in some cases better, because you control the sodium-to-sugar ratio instead of let...
I worked the graveyard shift at a hospital lab from 2019 to 2022. Three years of punching in at 11 PM and leaving at 7:30 AM. Three years of eating breakfast at...
The Study That Should Make Every Cannabis User Think Twice About What They "Remember" My college roommate Tara swears — absolutely swears — that we watched...
My neighbor Greg — the one who switched from cigarettes to a JUUL three years ago because his wife was pregnant and he wanted to \"be healthier about it\" —...
A 385-Point Hacker News Rant About Social Media Just Accidentally Explained Why You Cannot Sleep — And the Science Backs Every Word of It Last Saturday at ar...
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...
I have a confession that is going to sound deeply immature for a health writer: I have always found flatulence hilarious. Like, clinically hilarious. My partner...
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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Three months ago, my doctor looked at my bloodwork and said something I wasn't expecting: "Whatever you're doing, keep doing it." My fasting glucose had dropped...