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I once received a lot of blowback for an Upshot article in which I showed (with evidence) that exercise is not the key to weight loss. Diet is. Man...
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7th March 2017
While we have long known about the existence of microbes — the tiny bacteria, fungi and archaea that live all around, on and in us — our full...
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One of the biggest American public health victories of the last decade has been the record low reached in the teenage birthrate. Along with that ha...
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30th August 2016
Americans seem very afraid of cancer, with good reason. Unlike other things that kill us, it often seems to come out of nowhere. But evidence has i...
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9th September 2016
A few months ago, I wrote an article here on The Upshot discussing the potential health effects of alcohol. I pointed out that the scientific resea...
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17th September 2016
Hospitals and many insurance carriers care about patient satisfaction. It especially matters to hospitals because insurance payments can be influen...
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5th January 2017
This article originally ran in April. We are resurfacing it in light of new guidelines from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseas...
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Three times in the last two weeks, people — a patient, a colleague and my wife — told me stories about how out of control the price of EpiPen...
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28th December 2015
Over the past few months, I’ve written a number of times on how nutrition recommendations are seldom supported by science. I’ve argued that what ma...
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22nd December 2015
Over the past year, I’ve tried to clear up a lot of the misconceptions on food and drink: about salt, artificial sweeteners, among others, even wat...
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18th October 2016
You may have read or heard about the study debunking the rule. It said that no matter how fast you pick up food that falls on the floor, you will...
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19th April 2017
The election of Donald J. Trump gives the Republicans in Congress a chance to act on their desire to get rid of Obamacare, a wish that Mr. Trump ...
Aaron E. Carroll and Austin Frakt
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