Health & Wellness

It is low in calories, rich in beta–carotene, and has countless culinary versions – meet the gourds and their health benefits.

Studies reveal how colors, captions and markings on food packaging cause us to perceive products as healthy – even when they are loaded with sugar, salt and fat.

Leah Alster, a clinical dietitian at the obesity clinic in the Endocrine Institute at Meir Medical Center of the Clalit Group, explained that emotional eating is not a malfunction.

A new study suggests that Vitamin D may also have a connection to brain health, long before memory problems appear.

Meet the "hunger hormone" that explains why it is so difficult to stick to a diet. Discover how the evolutionary mechanism protects fat stores and how it can be balanced through proper habits.

Researchers discovered that caffeine not only improves alertness, but also strengthens the communication between areas in the brain responsible for movement and sensory information processing.

Researchers discovered that individuals who repeatedly ate the same foods during their diet lost more weight compared to those who ensured variety.

Psychological research: The refusal to take the last piece of food is not just politeness, but reflects power relations, social status, and self–sacrifice patterns acquired as early as childhood.

A new study has found that regular consumption of food rich in a unique antioxidant was linked to a decreased risk of cognitive impairment and better memory preservation in older age.

Many studies have examined the effects of coffee and tea separately, but the authors of the new study sought to understand specifically what their combined effect is.