1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1028+ words) It’s lunchtime at Fountain Grains & Greens in East Hollywood, a counter-service restaurant where customers increasingly prefer their rice and vegetable bowls piled high with hunks of chicken or steak. More and more, diners are leaning into “proteinmaxxing,” the viral health…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (631+ words) I’m an absolute fiend for mac and cheese. Ever since I was a kid, I’ve loved a comforting, cheesy bowl of macaroni, whether it’s from a box or homemade. Unfortunately, adulthood has made it clear that I can’t eat mac…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (752+ words) It’s boom time for Greek yogurt and cottage cheese. The protein craze has catapulted these once-niche health foods into the zeitgeist, as people clamor to eat more of the macronutrient that’s important for everything from muscle and bone health to…...

2+ week, 10+ hour ago   (310+ words) The “protein in everything” trend is rapidly approaching its logically ludicrous endgame. Recently, I wrote about how scientists are using a “gene gun” to shoot pig DNA into produce to create protein-packed lettuce. Now comes word that a separate research…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (862+ words) At Perkins Twin Creek Farm Inc., black-and-white Holsteins line up to munch on piles of a bespoke bran-colored feed. This isn’t the usual cow chow made using commoditized soybeans trucked in from afar. Instead, it’s an upgraded mix including heart-healthy…...

3+ week, 4+ hour ago   (395+ words) Scientists have finally created what might be the only thing that can get meatheads to eat their veggies: protein lettuce. By literally shooting pig genes into the chloroplasts of lettuce and tobacco cells, an international team of researchers were able…...

4+ week, 3+ hour ago   (549+ words) Americans looking to satisfy a sweet tooth without abandoning their health goals are increasingly willing to spend as much as $20 on protein-packed frozen yogurt topped with premium ingredients ranging from pistachio cream to olive oil. Greek frozen yogurt, which generally…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (583+ words) It’s breakfast time in America, where the utilitarian morning meal has taken on a new life. “To me it’s simple, unpretentious. It doesn’t have the same sort of baggage as dinner,” said Phil Vanner, a Gen X breakfast lover and…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1134+ words) Susumu Tonegawa, a Japanese molecular biologist who won the Nobel Prize in 1987 for figuring out how the body can produce sufficient antibodies to combat a multitude of infections, and who later advanced the understanding of how the brain works by…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (618+ words) Diet is one of the most important factors shaping health, but it’s surprisingly difficult for researchers to figure out what people eat. Researchers’ usual tools, like food frequency questionnaires or asking people to recall what they ate the day before,…...