When you hear about what to eat (and not eat) for weight loss, you generally encounter talk about bread, fried foods, and sugary desserts. While you should certainly eat these in moderation, there’s one ingredient that shows up in almost all your meals that isn’t doing you any favors in terms of shedding a few …

The truth is, you don’t need detergent, bleach solutions or special sprays to properly clean produce. All you need is water. We promise it’s just for eliminating pesticide residues. How to properly clean fruits and veggies The best way to reduce the number of unwanted germs is by washing produce under running water that’s no colder than 10 degrees …

CHOCOLATE HAS FLAVONOIDS Chocolate is not only delicious, it has surprising health benefits, especially if the concentration of cocoa is 70 percent or higher. Read on to learn more. While chocolate is more often associated with indulgence than nutrition, chocolate (a derivative of cocoa beans) contains plant nutrients called flavonoids that provide many health benefits. …

Start spreading the news: Butter is the new broccoli! Well, not really. But this creamy condiment isn’t as unhealthy as your mother told you. In fact, you could be nutritionally better off consuming a serving of butter than a serving of sugar, according to a recent report. Using nine papers that included more than 600,000 …

A hallucinogen found in magic mushrooms can “reset” the brains of people with untreatable depression, raising hopes of a future treatment, scans suggest. The small study gave 19 patients a single dose of the psychedelic ingredient psilocybin, BBC News reports. Half of patients ceased to be depressed and experienced changes in their brain activity that …