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Health trends

What everyone is talking about.

The foods, habits, supplements and medicines people are reading about this month, and what the news keeps coming back to.

Photo: Nicola Barts

By the numbers

This week in four numbers

120health headlines from 20 newsrooms in the last 10 days
2.3kpeople a day read about Coffee, the most-read topic we track
+23%Dark chocolate, the fastest riser this month
4headlines mention sugar

Then and now

Dark chocolate went from 238 to 293 readers a day

The ten biggest moves this month. The hollow dot is last month, the filled dot is this month, on a scale where each step is three times bigger.

MeditationHealthy habit -62%2.4k → 917
Dark chocolateFood or drink +23%238 → 293
ElderberrySupplement -21%260 → 207
Tai chiHealthy habit -17%923 → 767
Greek yogurtFood or drink -17%609 → 507
Intermittent fastingHealthy habit -16%220 → 185
Strength trainingHealthy habit -15%286 → 245
MetforminMedicine -13%1.3k → 1.1k
EggsFood or drink -13%501 → 438
L-theanineSupplement -9%372 → 337

Last monthThis month

Wikipedia daily readers (human traffic), middle value of each 30-day window, through Oct 27, 2026. Topics under 150 readers a day are left out so small numbers do not swing the percentages.

Up or down

7 topics rose this month, 34 fell

Every topic we track, sorted by how much its daily readers changed against the month before.

  1. Dark chocolate +23%
  2. Sweet potato +5%
  3. Kimchi +2%
  4. Vitamin D +2%
  5. Broccoli +2%
  6. Statins +1%
  7. Folate +0%
  8. Green tea 0%
  9. Lentils -2%
  10. Tirzepatide -2%
  11. Salmon -3%
  12. Melatonin -4%
  13. Vitamin C -4%
  14. Turmeric -5%
  15. Berberine -5%
  16. Mediterranean diet -5%
  17. Vitamin B12 -5%
  18. Oats -6%
  19. Spinach -6%
  20. Blueberries -6%
  21. Creatine -7%
  22. Coffee -7%
  23. Ashwagandha -7%
  24. Semaglutide -7%
  25. Omega-3 -8%
  26. CoQ10 -8%
  27. Almonds -8%
  28. Collagen -8%
  29. Olive oil -8%
  30. Avocado -9%
  31. Yoga -9%
  32. Probiotics -9%
  33. L-theanine -9%
  34. Eggs -13%
  35. Metformin -13%
  36. Strength training -15%
  37. Intermittent fasting -16%
  38. Greek yogurt -17%
  39. Tai chi -17%
  40. Elderberry -21%
  41. Meditation -62%

90 days at a glance

The climbers, day by day

Each line is the last 90 days of readers. The shaded part is this month.

Dark chocolate+23% 293 a day Sweet potato+5% 1.2k a day

Cooling off

Meditation-62% 917 a day Elderberry-21% 207 a day Tai chi-17% 767 a day

Trend briefs

Short briefs, built from the numbers

Food or drinkDark chocolate +23%Dark chocolate reading is up 23% this month. About 293 people a day read about it, compared with 238 a day the month before.Food or drinkSweet potato +5%Sweet potato reading is up 5% this month. About 1,173 people a day read about it, compared with 1,120 a day the month before.

In the headlines

Sugar came up in 4 of 120 recent headlines

Counted across the last ten days of headlines and summaries from our newsrooms.

  1. Sugar4 stories
  2. Strength training4 stories
  3. Diet and weight2 stories
  4. Fiber1 stories
  5. Sleep1 stories
  6. Gut health1 stories
  7. Alcohol1 stories

Headlines and summaries from 20 newsrooms, October 29.