Nutrition & Wellness
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A popular Japanese chain where diners eat in silent meditation comes to U.S.
If you were eating at an Ichiran restaurant right now, you wouldn’t be reading this article. You also wouldn’t be chatting with a companion or multitasking. What you’d do is slurp noodles in solitude at a solo booth. The chain of minimalist ramen shops that impose a Zen approach on diners is Read More...
Five reasons why you should stop worrying and go vegan
With the news that more than 540,000 people – more than 1 per cent of the population – now follow a vegan diet, 2016 has become the Year of the Vegan. But if you’re yet to be convinced, here are five compelling reasons to ditch animal products for good. There’s nothing like Read More...
GMO does not work and that’s good news
The graph says it all: About 20 years ago, the United States and Canada began introducing genetic modifications in agriculture with the promise on higher yields and decreases in the pesticide use. Europe did not embrace the new technology. Now, we see that the yields in Europe have not fallen Read More...
Reduce greenhouse gas emissions by eating less meat, report says
According to the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), in the past 50 years, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from agriculture, forestry, and fisheries have nearly doubled. By 2050, they could rise by an additional 30 percent. Much of the existing research on agriculture and climate Read More...
What Silicon Valley can learn from Buddha’s diet
As we walk, Dan Zigmond pulls on a black baseball cap. The sun is high, and the trees give little shade. It’s a big park—stretching across a good nine acres of grass, mulch, shrubs, and gravel paths—but from where we are, it looks much bigger. Beyond the nine acres, all we can see are more Read More...
This simple diet linked to higher IQ
The reason people with a higher IQ also tend to be healthier could be down to their diet. People with a higher IQ are more likely to be vegetarian, psychological research finds. In fact, vegetarians could be up to 10% more intelligent than red meat eaters, according to some studies. A higher IQ is Read More...
The best and worst cities in the U.S for vegetarians and vegans
If you’re a traveling vegetarian, you may want to check out this guide to veggie-friendly cities in the U.S. You could probably guess that cities like Portland, New York City and San Francisco stand near the top of the list of most veggie-friendly cities, but did you know Santa Fe, New Mexico had Read More...
7 agricultural innovations that could save the world
Algorithms are everywhere these days. They can refine our web searches and help us decide what show we should binge on next or controversially used to determine who is most likely to become a criminal. Algorithms can also be harnessed to more effectively plant a field with diverse Read More...
Small farmers can overcome climate change and feed the world
Like many small-scale farmers, Elizabeth Mpofu from drought-hit Zimbabwe has had to adapt her homestead to cope with a changing climate, which the United Nations says threatens to push millions globally into poverty and hunger. She has found ways of adapting such as collecting and storing rainfall Read More...
Can wild seeds save us from food apocalypse?
Around the world, botanists are battling to find rare wild seed strains before they die out – helping ensure food supplies that can survive the perils of climate change. Trapped by Hitler’s soldiers during the brutal winter of 1941-42, a band of Russian botanists faced a terrible Read More...