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Levels Investigates

Not all continuous glucose monitors are covered by insurance, even if you have diabetes. Here’s how to navigate CGM coverage.
Levels Investigates

Are CGMs covered by insurance?

Monique Brouillette
🕗 7 min read
The Food Pyramid was in every classroom in the 90s; here’s why it finally went away, and the challenges that remain.
Levels Investigates

Why the USDA Food Pyramid diet recommendations changed

Jaimy Lee
🕗 7 min read
The National School Lunch Program has succeeded in reducing student hunger. Now it needs to address the metabolic dysfunction it helped promote.
Levels Investigates

How healthy are school lunches?

Jaimy Lee
🕗 7 min read
Research has shown for years that the sweetener is unhealthy. So why is it still in so many ultra-processed foods?
Levels Investigates

Why isn’t high-fructose corn syrup regulated?

The Levels Team
🕗 15 min read
The potential risks of these ingredients are serious enough that other countries don’t allow their use or require a warning label—yet some food in the U.S. still contains them.
Levels Investigates

7 Additives in our processed food that are banned outside the U.S.

The Levels Team
🕗 8 min read
Official dietary guidelines play a significant role in setting policy and habits. Here’s why they once demonized fat in favor of carbs and why they still recommend added sugar.
Levels Investigates

Why have dietary guidelines been so wrong, and how do they still need to change?

Jennifer Chesak
🕗 12 min read
We dispel some of the most common misconceptions about metabolism and blood sugar to help you make healthier diet and lifestyle decisions
Levels Investigates

Five metabolic-health myths—busted

Rachel Nuwer
🕗 5 min read

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