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A class action lawsuit filed July 7 in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington accuses Costco Wholesale Corporation of selling a popular protein powder contaminated with dangerous levels of lead, cadmium and arsenic — while marketing the product as “good, clean nutrition.”

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The following essay is reprinted with permission fromThe Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research

Celebrities and their fluctuating weight has been a standard of tabloid fodder. Breathless narrations of every pound a star gained and lost reached a crescendo in the early ’00s. Since then, body positivity hasn’t exactly replaced the brutally exacting beauty standards of Hollywood, but it has shifted the cultural conversation about weight. “The tabloids of…

Fulton County Police Officer Aaron Blount—a new father, fiancé and committed community volunteer—was nearing the end of his shift when he spotted a car driving erratically and decided to intervene

Every year, countless people promise themselves a healthier life. They buy expensive gym memberships, order trendy supplements, or jump into strict diets that feel impossible to follow after a few weeks. The excitement is real, but so is the disappointment when those changes don’t last.Doctors, however, often witness something very different in real life. The…

Michael Jackson is believed to have made some peculiar in-flight demands while on tour – among them, Diet Coke cans secretly filled with wine

By Janet Lee July 12, 2026 Made with the right ingredients, smoothies can be a healthy snack or light meal. Photo: Getty Images

RESTRICTED EATING (TRE) may improve hepatic fat fraction in overweight or obese adults, but a 12-week multicentre randomised trial found that the timing of the eight-hour eating window did not provide greater improvements in liver health of faecal microbiota than Mediterranean diet-based usual care alone. The findings suggest that weight loss, rather than the timing…

If you burn more calories than you consume, you lose weight. However, calorie uptake is affected by ripeness, processing and burn rate