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When you scramble breakfast eggs in canola oil, order fast-food fries, or pour commercial dressing onto your salad, you’re consuming seed oils. A blanket term for any vegetable oil extracted from the seeds of plants, seed oils include sunflower oil, canola oil (which is made from rapeseed), soybean oil, corn oil, safflower oil and grapeseed…

As a gastroenterologist, Mohamad Mokadem, MD, has heard countless pieces of dietary advice that simply don’t make medical sense

A healthy gut is essential for overall health and well-being, establishing proper digestion, metabolism and immunity. Meanwhile, poor gut health has been linked to a range of health conditions, such as inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowel syndrome, allergies and mental health disorders. But understanding how to maintain a healthy gut can set patients’ digestive health…

A recent 2026 study from the University of Cambridge found that commonly-used sweeteners slow the growth of certain gut bacteria and it’s the latest in a raft of studies to explore the effects of sweeteners on the microbiome

Sleep is essential for overall health and well-being. It helps restore your body, optimize cardiometabolic and mental health, supports your immune system and keeps your mind sharp. But women are more likely than men to struggle with sleep problems, including insomnia and restless leg syndrome. Hormonal changes during the menstrual cycle, pregnancy and menopause can…

Sleep. Exercise. Eat well. It’s the oldest recommendation in medicine, repeated so often it’s become a cliche. We know the advice, even if we don’t always follow it. But have you ever stopped to wonder why these three seemingly different habits have such remarkably similar effects on our brains and bodies?

Few know that an entire clinical specialty exists to treat chronic insomnia. Many are also unaware that there are too few specialists nationwide to meet the demand

Sleep. Exercise. Eat well. It’s the oldest recommendation in medicine, repeated so often it’s become a cliche. We know the advice, even if we don’t always follow it. But have you ever stopped to wonder why these three seemingly different habits have such remarkably similar effects on our brains and bodies?

If you’ve ever wondered how someone can snooze through a blaring alarm, a thunderstorm or a noisy neighbor, new research suggests the answer may lie in what the brain chooses to pay attention to during sleep

Debra Pierce holds up a picture of Stanley Sears, her brother, while standing in the yard of the mobile home he was renovating before his death in 2024. Pierce believes North Carolina’s Martin County needs higher-level emergency services and a hospital. Sarah Jane Tribble/KFF Health Newshide caption