Nutrition & Wellness
From learning about the health benefits of turmeric to staying up-to-date with the latest superfood trends, discover the best diet tips to improve your health.
These cow-free dairy products taste exactly like the real stuff
Using his ability to create proteins genetically identical to those of animals, a bio-engineer has managed to develop cow-free dairy products that taste exactly like the real thing. Together with another vegan biologist, the scientist created a technology to insert a DNA sequence into microflora Read More...
Floating deep farms promise year round production of food crops
However, rising sea levels caused by climate change are likely to lead to increased erosion and inundation of salt water, reducing the amount of land available for farming, particularly on small islands and in low-lying coastal regions. Now researchers at Nottingham University have developed the Read More...
Is black pepper healthy? Here's what the science says
Like salt, black pepper sits on almost every kitchen table or countertop in America. But while whole books have been written about sodium consumption and human health, black pepper, and its compounds have garnered little attention from Read More...
These foods will help you reset your gut in just 3 days
By now you've probably heard how influential the microbes in your gut are for your overall health. What you might not have known is that the life span of a microbe is about 20 minutes, meaning that it’s possible to make lasting changes to your gut health in just a matter of days. To reset your Read More...
The science of fighting Alzheimer's with brain-health food
There is increasing evidence in scientific literature that healthy eating is associated with retention of cognitive function and warding off dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. A new diet was created by scientists in Toronto and is named the Canadian Brain Health Food Guide. In the United States, Read More...
This woman made Denmark cut food waste by 25 percent in 5 years
Denmark leads the battle against food waste in Europe. That success started with one woman (who was not even born in the country, she came from Russia as an immigrant!). She introduced goody bags for people to take food home from restaurants (Europeans don’t have that tradition). She cut banana Read More...
Republicans and Democrats agree: The U.S. needs more organic farmers
As an organic farmer in northeast Iowa, Wendy Johnson often feels like she and her family are living on an island. The small acreage she rents from her family’s farm to grow corn, soybeans, and small grains and raise chickens, hogs, and sheep is surrounded by large swaths of conventional corn and Read More...
Study: A diet full of organic food drastically reduces your risk of cancer
Eating organic food is the simplest way to dramatically cut your risk of cancer. That’s the main finding from a new study that looked at the diets of nearly 70,000 French adults. Of those adults, the ones who ate the most organic food were 25 percent less likely to develop cancer. Specifically, Read More...
Iceland’s hot springs are helping farmers to grow vegetables all year round
Besides generating a quarter of the country’s electricity, Iceland’s geothermal energy allows farmers to practice agriculture all year round. The naturally hot water is piped in to heat the greenhouses and the hot springs are also a key power source for the artificial lights that help farmers Read More...
Former mine shafts and tunnels could serve as underground farms
Old coal mines in Britain could be resurrected in the form of subterranean food farms to yield large-scale crop production. Former mine shafts and tunnels have the perfect environmental conditions for farming and could produce up to ten times as much food as farms above ground. A seven square meter Read More...