Nutrition
Intermittent Fasting: What the Trials Actually Show
A major Cochrane review of nearly 2,000 people found intermittent fasting barely beats ordinary dieting. Here is what the data really supports.
Mar 10, 2026
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Yoga Works for Back Pain, Slightly, and Sends About Seventeen People per Hundred Thousand to Hospital
A Cochrane review of twenty-one trials found yoga probably better than no exercise for chronic low back pain, with small improvements. Emergency department data shows injury rates rising, most steeply among people over sixty-five.
Sep 4, 2026
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Oil Pulling and Tongue Scraping: One Has Modest Evidence, the Other Is Mostly Enthusiasm
Two Ayurvedic oral practices have gone mainstream on very different evidence bases. Neither replaces a toothbrush, and one of them has a Cochrane review that found two trials and forty people.
Sep 4, 2026
