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Medical disclaimer: This article is for informational and educational purposes only and is not medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Chromium needs vary by a...
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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This article is for informational purposes only and is not medical advice. It does not diagnose, treat, or prescribe. Vitamin E supplementation has clinically m...
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Building HealthSavvyGuide on top of USDA FoodData Central, I aggregated nutrient profiles for over 1,465 foods. While indexing the database for vitamin C (ascor...
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...
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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. Consult a qualified healthcare provider before making changes to your diet or if you ...
This article is for informational purposes only and is not medical advice. Always consult a qualified healthcare provider before making significant dietary chan...
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...
⚕️ Medical Disclaimer: This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Zinc supplementatio...
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Anti-Inflammatory Diet: What Science Actually Says About Food and Chronic Inflammation This article is for informational purposes only and is not medical advi...
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By the HealthSavvyGuide Fanny Engriana | Updated April 14, 2026 Nervous system regulation has emerged as the most talked-about wellness trend of 2026, and for g...
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...
I Spent $189 on a Red Light Therapy Panel Because TikTok Told Me It Would Fix My Skin — Here Is What 14 Weeks of Daily Use Actually Did It started the way mo...
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...
Last September, I missed my flight. Not by a few minutes — by three hours. I was at home, fully aware that I had a 2 PM flight. I looked at my phone at 11:3...
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...
Three months ago, I sat across from Dr. Kenji Yamamoto — a neuropsychologist in Portland who specializes in adult ADHD — and asked him the question I get in...
I have read approximately seven hundred articles about ADHD that open with some version of "ADHD is not about attention, it is about regulation." And while that...
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\" —...
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...
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...
My sister sent me a TikTok at 11:47 PM on a Thursday. Not unusual — she sends me approximately 340 TikToks a week, and about 330 of them are either cat videos...
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A 558-Point Hacker News Discussion Just Revealed Something Psychologists Have Been Warning About for Years I wasn't planning to write about politics today. I w...
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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...