It’s less than a century since these essential nutrients were discovered. Do we really need them? For some people, the answer is yes. And there’s nothing wrong with a daily multivitamins. However, the key to good health is to get everything you need from food.

Recent research hints artificial sweeteners aren’t so sweet. In a Purdue University study, scientists found that rats fed yogurt mixed with saccharin gained five percent more fat than those given sugar-: sweetened yogurt. “No-calorie sweeteners may teach us that sweet foods aren’t caloric—then when we encounter a food with real sugar, we think it has no calories and overeat,” explains study co-author Susan Swithers, Ph.D.

Here are some of the good benefits from eating fruits, fish and vegetables to our body:

• Good benefits from banana
• Health benefits from eating pepper
• Why we should eat less meat
• Importance of tomato
• Ginger chicken soup
• Importance of fish to our body

Why don’t French women get as wide as American ones? Because American women depend on external signs like whether a plate is clean to stop eating, while their baguette-eating counterparts rely on internal hunger cues, report Cornell University researchers. Tap into your inner Frenchie, pause when you’re half done with your meal to check your hunger level—you may not need to finish the rest.