If you look at the ingredients of the food you buy, you’ve probably seen high-fructose corn syrup on the list more times than you can count. Following up on a [ … ]
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New Study: Vegetarians Are Happier
Want to improve your mental health? A new study finds that going vegetarian is one way to do so. A new study out by researchers from Arizona State University finds [ … ]
Book Review: Organic Manifesto (Part I)
The following is a brief review of the first part of Organic Manifesto: How Organic Farming Can Heal Our Planet, Feed the World, and Keep Us Safe. Included are some [ … ]
Increasing CO2 to Affect Nutritional Value of Food?
We know all about increasing CO2’s effect on the climate and oceans, but new research finds that it could have a huge impact on the nutritional value of our food [ … ]
How Long Have We Known What To Eat?
Since 1917, the USDA has created a series of food guides to help people figure out what to eat. Over the years, this guide has included between four and seven [ … ]
Laboratory Grown Meat: Coming Soon To Your Dinner Plate
Scientists in the Netherlands recently announced that they have grown meat in a laboratory for the first time. Though no one has yet to taste this laboratory meat, there is [ … ]
Can Diet Coke Kill You? Part 2
Due to the great popularity of “Can Diet Coke Kill You?” combined with a lot of controversy over it, I have decided to write this follow-up post. Most of the [ … ]
Chilies: Pain and Pleasure
I can’t tell you how many times I have broken a sweat in a restaurant. I’m not talking about a girly glow. I’m talking about sweat pouring off of my [ … ]
Grr…Lick the Bittersweet Symphony That is Life
(Image courtesy of www.sporeflections.wordpress.com) Can you imagine anything worse than being somewhere in public and realizing your breath is loaded with a smell so pungent that it’s offending everyone in [ … ]
Death by Chocolate and Resuscitation by Golden-Yellow Powder
(Images courtesy of www.braquiplan.com & www.britannica.com) Revered in India as “holy” this golden-yellow colored powder is worth its weight in gold, that too nutritionally, but not monetarily. Any guesses what [ … ]
Can Diet Coke Kill You?
According to a UK documentary, “Sweet Misery,” the National Cancer Institute identified a significant and impressive increase in brain cancer starting in about 1984. Why did brain cancer shoot up? [ … ]
New Research Links Meat Consumption with Cancer Growth
Organic, free-range, or factory farmed—according to a new study conducted by UC San Diego’s School of Medicine, all red meat and milk spurs the growth of cancerous tumors. [social_buttons] Researchers [ … ]
Green Diva’s Guide to Delicious Living: 5 Reasons to Buy Organic Food
CORE TRUTHS A Book Review Have you ever been challenged by someone about why to buy organic produce? If you’re like me, you can rattle off some good solid [ … ]