Plain-English reporting on the latest peer-reviewed nutrition research.
Charts are useful for single ingredients and quietly useless for the meals most people actually eat. Here is where the line sits, and what to do on the other side of it.
The anabolic window didn't close — it was never really open. What the evidence says about when to eat protein, and the two situations where timing genuinely earns its reputation.
Seasonal eating is sold on nutrition, flavour, cost and climate. Only two of those hold up well, and they are not the two that get the most airtime.
Most people hit their protein target and miss their fibre target by half. Part of that is diet. A surprising amount of it is that the app never mentions it.
Most health-app accuracy claims wither when somebody outside the company tries to reproduce them. That's a problem for users — and for a few notable apps in 2026, no longer one.
Mean Absolute Percentage Error is the statistic behind every accuracy claim in nutrition tech. Here's what it actually measures — and why a 1% difference matters more than you'd think.
The most-repeated number in fitness nutrition isn't quite as settled as the internet makes it sound. Here's what the evidence actually supports — and where it gets nuanced.
Herman Pontzer's research on the Hadza shifted how scientists think about exercise and metabolism. The popular interpretation gets the part that matters wrong.