Fiber

If you’ve heard that you must cut out sugar to keep cancer from growing — or that sugar “feeds” tumors — here is the direct answer: eating sugar has not …

If your gallbladder has been making itself known — a dull ache under the right ribs after a rich meal, or an ultrasound that turned up stones — the honest …

“Foods for the intestines” usually means one of two opposite problems. Either things are moving too slowly (constipation) or too fast (diarrhea), and the foods that help one can make …

If you want to eat for a healthier liver, the most useful thing you can do isn’t to add one miracle food — it’s to shift the overall pattern of …

Your gut does best on variety. The most consistent finding in microbiome science is a simple one: people who eat a wider range of plants tend to host a more …

The most useful thing you can do for your heart at the grocery store is also the least exciting: buy more of a few specific foods, and eat them often …

Foods that cause cancer get discussed as if a single bite could flip a switch. That is not how cancer risk works. One meal does not decide your future, and …

Foods that boost your metabolism are real, but the effect is usually smaller than headlines suggest. Daily metabolic rate is set mostly by your body size, muscle mass, age, sex, …

If you want the short answer: the foods for healthy digestion that do the most are the ones that move things along and feed the bacteria in your gut. That …

The best foods for healthy arteries aren’t exotic “artery cleansers” — they’re everyday plants and unsaturated fats that lower the things which damage blood vessels over time: high LDL cholesterol, …