Tag: Eating

  • Nation & World

    Big gains in better chewing

    According to a new Harvard study, our ancestors between 2 and 3 million years ago started to spend far less time and effort chewing by adding meat to their diets and using stone tools to process food.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Weighed down

    Harvard anthropologist Susan Greenhalgh’s new book, “Fat-Talk Nation: The Human Costs of America’s War on Fat,” delves deep into the national obsession with thinness.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Registration open for intuitive eating seminar

    Tired of the endless cycle of deprivation and overeating? Harvard University Health Services is offering an intuitive eating seminar, and registration is open now.

    1 minute
  • Nation & World

    Wandering mind not a happy mind

    People spend 46.9 percent of their waking hours thinking about something other than what they’re doing, and this mind wandering typically makes them unhappy, according to research by Harvard psychologists Matthew A. Killingsworth and Daniel T. Gilbert.

    3 minutes