Category Health

Diet Soda May Be Hurting Your Diet

Artificial sweeteners are everywhere, but the jury is still out on whether these chemicals are harmless. Also called non-nutritive sweeteners, these can be synthetic — such as saccharin and aspartame — or naturally derived, such as steviol, which comes from…

10 Ways the Earth Changed Forever in 2019

Raikoke Volcano on the Kuril Islands erupted on June 22, 2019, sending a huge ash cloud high into the atmosphere. Most of the time, the ground beneath our feet feels permanent. Landscapes, oceans, mountain ranges — all seem enduring compared…

6 Times Parasites Grossed Us Out in 2019

Some parasitic infections are deadly, while others are just a nuisance. But regardless of their severity, they always gross us out. A parasite is essentially any organism that lives off another, getting its nutrients from its “host.” Here are the…