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• The Science of Cooking — Heat, Salt, Fat and Water
  Every recipe ever written is applied physics with a taste test. Four forces — heat, salt, fat and water — do almost all the work in a kitchen, and once you can name them, instructions stop being arbitrary and start being obvious. Here is the model behind good cooking.
• How to Read a Nutrition Label in Two Minutes
  Front-of-pack marketing lies; the little table does not. Here is how to read a nutrition label — servings, the 4-4-9 calorie rule, added sugars, and the one trick that stops you being fooled by "per serving" numbers.
• BMI Explained: What the Number Really Measures — and Where It Fails
  Body Mass Index is the most-used and most-misunderstood health number there is. Here is the arithmetic behind it, why the standard cut-offs exist, and the four situations where BMI flat-out misleads.