HealthStylz
A mother and daughter sharing a breakfast meal at a cozy home dining table

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
2.5kpeople a day read about Coffee, the most-read topic we track
+205%Meditation, the fastest riser this month
5headlines mention diet and weight

Then and now

Meditation went from 692 to 2,108 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 +205%692 → 2.1k
CoffeeFood or drink +54%1.6k → 2.5k
ElderberrySupplement -25%306 → 230
Greek yogurtFood or drink -15%659 → 558
MetforminMedicine -12%1.3k → 1.1k
BlueberriesFood or drink -12%933 → 819
CollagenSupplement +12%519 → 580
CreatineSupplement +11%1.2k → 1.3k
AshwagandhaSupplement -11%1.6k → 1.4k
Vitamin DSupplement +10%568 → 628

Last monthThis month

Wikipedia daily readers (human traffic), middle value of each 30-day window, through Oct 8, 2026. Topics under 150 readers a day are left out so small numbers do not swing the percentages.

Up or down

26 topics rose this month, 16 fell

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

  1. Meditation +205%
  2. Coffee +54%
  3. Collagen +12%
  4. Creatine +11%
  5. Vitamin D +10%
  6. Walking +10%
  7. Turmeric +10%
  8. Oats +10%
  9. Vitamin C +9%
  10. Omega-3 +9%
  11. Vitamin B12 +8%
  12. L-theanine +8%
  13. Spinach +8%
  14. Kimchi +5%
  15. Sweet potato +5%
  16. Avocado +5%
  17. Yoga +5%
  18. Eggs +5%
  19. Melatonin +4%
  20. Salmon +4%
  21. Berberine +3%
  22. Dark chocolate +3%
  23. CoQ10 +3%
  24. Folate +2%
  25. Lentils +2%
  26. Broccoli +2%
  27. Statins 0%
  28. Green tea -1%
  29. Tirzepatide -3%
  30. Strength training -4%
  31. Almonds -4%
  32. Mediterranean diet -5%
  33. Semaglutide -6%
  34. Intermittent fasting -7%
  35. Probiotics -7%
  36. Tai chi -7%
  37. Olive oil -8%
  38. Ashwagandha -11%
  39. Blueberries -12%
  40. Metformin -12%
  41. Greek yogurt -15%
  42. Elderberry -25%

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.

Meditation+205% 2.1k a day Coffee+54% 2.5k a day Collagen+12% 580 a day Creatine+11% 1.3k a day Vitamin D+10% 628 a day Walking+10% 159 a day

Cooling off

Elderberry-25% 230 a day Greek yogurt-15% 558 a day Metformin-12% 1.1k a day

Trend briefs

Short briefs, built from the numbers

Healthy habitMeditation +205%Meditation reading is up 205% this month. About 2,108 people a day read about it, compared with 692 a day the month before.Food or drinkCoffee +54%Coffee reading is up 54% this month. About 2,518 people a day read about it, compared with 1,637 a day the month before.SupplementCollagen +12%Collagen reading is up 12% this month. About 580 people a day read about it, compared with 519 a day the month before.SupplementCreatine +11%Creatine reading is up 11% this month. About 1,301 people a day read about it, compared with 1,172 a day the month before.

In the headlines

Diet and weight came up in 5 of 120 recent headlines

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

  1. Diet and weight5 stories
  2. Strength training4 stories
  3. Sugar3 stories
  4. Gut health3 stories
  5. Protein2 stories
  6. Sleep2 stories
  7. Walking and steps1 stories
  8. Vitamin D1 stories

Headlines and summaries from 20 newsrooms, October 9.