In a cruel twist of irony, some of the world's healthiest food – leafy greens – have become some of the riskiest in terms of foodborne illness. This is so on-brand for modern humans. Seventeen of ...

Can you tell the difference between safe mushrooms and poisonous ones? Oh, mushrooms: Providers of enormous health benefits – deliverers of poison worthy of a wicked fairytale queen. Why are you so ...

Stories from TreeHugger's sister site about how streets are for people. Let's just ignore the whole OK Boomer thing. I have written before that we are not in an intergenerational war, but a class ...

Here's where influenza hits especially hard, and what you can do to help protect yourself from it. The flu is a monster. The contagious illness caused by influenza viruses has resulted in between 9 ...

When doctors team up with food banks, it improves health and staves off chronic hunger. Food pharmacies are a simple concept, yet one of the most hopeful developments to come out of the medical ...

A new kind of food label hopes to fight obesity by stating how much exercise is required to burn it off. Nutrition labels on packaged foods can be a tricky thing to navigate. There are so many ...

Look at Joan MacDonald. Her fitness career didn't start till her 70s! When Joan MacDonald was 70, she felt like she was slowly dying. She weighed almost 200 lbs and was on daily medication for high ...

And new research suggests that the problem is only going to get worse. Hot weather is more than just uncomfortable for pregnant women; it is potentially dangerous, sending them into labor earlier ...

In other words, always wash your hands when you're done in the bathroom. If you had to skip washing your hands after going to the bathroom or handling raw chicken, what would you choose? I fear that ...

It turns out you can still be a high-performing athlete on a plant-based diet. Last night I finally watched The Game Changers, the Netflix documentary that has everyone talking about plant-based ...