The Nuance

Cooking Is the Ultimate Antidote

Research suggests preparing your own meals is a habit that can lead to meaningful mind and body benefits

Markham Heid
Elemental
Published in
5 min readNov 21, 2019

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InIn his 2013 bestseller Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael Moss describes a concept food scientists refer to as the “bliss point.” The…

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Markham Heid
Elemental

I’m a frequent contributor at TIME, the New York Times, and other media orgs. I write mostly about health and science. I like long walks and the Grateful Dead.