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Krispy Kreme’s Bacon Donut DogIf you thought doughnut hamburger buns were weird, get this: Krispy Kreme’s partnership with the Wilmington BlueRocks (that’s a minor league baseball team in Delaware, in case you don’t speak sports) birthed this cross between a hot dog and a donut. A donut “bun” is filled with a hot dog, drizzled with raspberry jam, and topped with chopped bacon. Luckily you can only get this heart-attack-waiting-to-happen at the team’s stadium in Delaware....

Stomach pain and cramps are common symptoms of both endometriosis and inflammatory bowel disease, and a new study finds the two health conditions may go hand in hand. In fact, women who have endometriosis (when the uterus lining grows outside the uterus and can cause painful periods as well as infertility) may be a whopping 80% more likely to get digestive diseases such as ulcerative colitis or Chron’s when compared to women without, according to the journal Gut....

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No. Milk. According to the food geniuses over at ChefSteps, you can also make a latte with coffee and xanthan gum, a natural thickening agent. It’s used as a thickener and a binder in practically every gluten-free baked good in existence. And apparently, mixing it with coffee yields a thick, frothy texture that’s just like a milky latte, but for practically zero calories. MORE: 4 Tricks To Turn Coffee Into The Ultimate Health Drink Despite the pretty pictures over at ChefSteps, I was pretty skeptical that this would work for me at home, or that it would actually be delicious....

To try this at home: Add a scant teaspoon of a healthy oil like coconut or olive to the cooking water for every ½ cup of uncooked rice (use 1 cup of water per ½ cup of uncooked rice). Cook rice as you normally would, but then let cool it over night in the fridge, and bam!—you’re left with rice that tastes just like rice, but has fewer usable calories....

MORE: 5 Eating Strategies To Help Ease Psoriasis In the study, 60 psoriasis sufferers who added a daily 3,000 mg dose of curcumin to the traditional topical steroids they were already using, saw a 48% drop in the severity of their red, scaly patches of skin after 12 weeks. The science behind the skin improvement: Anti-inflammatory curcumin likely amps up topical steroids’ assault on the inflammation that causes psoriasis, explains Heather Woolery-Lloyd, MD, director of ethnic skin care for the University of Miami Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery....

Pan-Seared Salmon with Brown Sugar–Mustard Glaze Prep Time: 10 minutesTotal TIme: 20 minutesServes 4 2 Tbsp dark brown sugar or sucanat 1/2 tsp cumin 1/4 tsp mustard powder 4 wild salmon fillets (6 oz each; about 1" thick), skin removed 2 tsp olive oil Stir together sugar, cumin, mustard powder, 1½ tsp kosher salt, and 1 tsp freshly ground black pepper in small bowl. Unwrap fish and leave it on paper you bought it in, placing it so side that had skin is down....

Any kind of honey is effective, but I recommend raw, unprocessed honey, available from beekeepers and in health food stores. It lowers inflammation, soothes pain, and contains enzymes that prevent bacterial growth. Manuka honey, produced in New Zealand by bees that pollinate the native manuka bush, is particularly effective. It contains a high concentration of methylglyoxal, which fights wound-infecting bacteria. You can make your own jar of salve using either manuka honey or local raw honey and infusing it with sage or thyme....

[sidebar]Here’s what else the ACA will change. Lifetime limitsNo longer can insurance companies stop paying claims once you hit an arbitrary annual or lifetime limit on essential health care services. This is particularly important for women, because we typically have higher costs than men. “We have more complex health needs and conditions, and we live longer, all of which contribute to those higher costs,” says Laura Cohen, senior health policy analyst at the Connors Center for Women’s Health and Gender Biology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston....

“Just bring a side” is a simple phrase that can cause undue anguish. This year, fear not. We tapped the sauté pans of some of New York City’s hottest chefs—from Shanna Pacifico at Back Forty West and Scott Campbell at Bette Midler’s New Leaf Restaurant to Ian Kapitan of Alobar—to bring you these crowd-pleasing recipes. Every recipe is meat-free—four are vegan—and they showcase ingredients like seasonal veggies and wholesome ancient grains....

High-calorie lattes, ice cream before bed—we all know these guilty pleasures will thicken our hips if we overindulge. But there might be another, more surprising explanation for our collective struggle to lose weight over the past several decades. Hint: Think shower curtains, not cream puffs. Emerging research from some of the country’s leading obesity experts identifies a compound found in vinyl as a potent fat promoter. The latest evidence, published in the journal Environmental Health Perspectives, is an animal study finding that low doses of the vinyl plastic compound tributyltin (TBT) can trigger obesity not only in the person exposed, but also in three generations of their offspring....

[sidebar] French researchers reviewed nearly 300 studies that looked at the link between blood levels of vitamin D and diseases linked to D-deficiency, like cardiovascular disease, diabetes, certain cancers, as well as mood disorders and weight gain. The majority of those studies showed that people with higher D levels were less likely to develop disease. However, when comparing those results to randomised clinical trials where people were given D supplements, researchers failed to find any actual reductions of risk....

And, lucky for us, it’s popping up everywhere we turn: This year, Dunkin Donuts and Subway have begun offering the spread. Naturally, it was our duty to sample the many offerings and discover which chain is mashing up the nation’s best. (And also because avocados are about to become prohibitively expensive and we wanted to get while the gettin’s good.) Here, the results of our blind taste test, ranked from worst to best....

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What is Lyme disease? There’s a reason experts call it “The Great Imitator.” Lyme disease results from inflammation caused by Lyme bacteria, and the symptoms can mimic everything from rheumatoid arthritis and lupus to anxiety disorders and depression. Most often the result of a tick bite, Lyme disease’s range of devastation is daunting: The same Lyme germ causing joint pain in one person could lead to symptoms associated with multiple sclerosis and Lou Gehrig’s disease in another....

[sidebar]For the study, 48 participants were asked to eat one of two breakfast options: prepared oatmeal or ready-to-eat cereal. Oatmeal-eaters not only felt fuller longer than their cereal-eating counterparts, but they also had less of a desire to eat after the meal—something researchers chalk up to oatmeal’s high fiber levels. With less of a desire to eat, oatmeal could very well be a new tool for weight loss. Fiber isn’t this breakfast’s only benefit....

Nowhere is the trend more apparent than in Colorado, which has issued more than 160 edible marijuana licenses to restaurants since the state legalized pot in 2012. At the Denver-based bakery Love’s Oven, a team of classically trained pastry chefs now prepares baklava, ginger cookies, and chocolate-dipped homemade graham crackers with cannabis-infused butter. Owner Peggy Moore says the skunky pot essence is undetectable in most of her treats—those products that use more weed simply have a tarragon flavor to them....

Also true: it actually is hotter in the city. In fact, new research from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies published in the journal Nature explains that in cities, heat is “efficiently” released back into the lower atmosphere through a process called convection (yes, the technology that makes ovens tick). Add to that the heat given off by buildings and parking lots, which are apparently the perfect little heat storage boxes, and city dwellers experience as much as a 5-degree bump in average daily temperatures....