Can a Common Artificial Sweetener Fuel Anxiety?

Aspartame, an artificial sweetener commonly found in diet drinks and food, may raise the risk for anxiety, early research suggests. In a new preclinical study, investigators observed that mice that drank water containing aspartame exhibited pronounced anxiety-like...
Does the Mediterranean Diet Prevent Obesity?

Does the Mediterranean Diet Prevent Obesity?

An introduction in a recently published review by Muscogiuri and co-authors states unequivocally that “it [obesity] is a chronic disease.” Needless to say, a chronic disease like obesity, type 2 diabetes, or cardiovascular disease,...