After deal talks lasting almost a year, MyFitnessPal has successfully acquired its up-and-coming rival Cal AI. Cal AI is the AI calorie counting app startup built by two high school teenagers that ...

A calorie is a calorie is a calorie, at least from a thermodynamic standpoint. It’s defined as the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water by 1 degree Celsius (2.2 ...

These days, when we talk about diet, the one term that we hear incessantly is ‘Calories’. With infinite food and nutrition influencers sharing their wisdom online, we often end up overwhelmed with the ...

ONLINE TOOLS HAVE long promised to demystify and streamline calorie tracking. Because if you can track your calories, you can create a calorie “deficit.” And taking in fewer calories than you expend ( ...

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It's a piece of exercise "equipment" most people overlook, but that staircase can do more than get you from point A to point B. If you've wondered about the average number of calories burned climbing ...

Long held up as the big benchmark of nutrition, the calorie is losing its clout in the age of GLP-1s and a sharper focus on nutrients. Long held up as the big benchmark of nutrition, the calorie is ...

Sarah Todd returned to reporting in January 2025 after being assignment editor at STAT since October 2022. You can reach Sarah on Signal at sarahlizchar.47. Marion Nestle doesn’t understand why people ...

As advanced AI models become better at understanding different types of input — such as text, voice, and images — and converting them into nutritional data, fitness apps that let people log their food ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...