Health
Finding good health news amidst a pandemic can be quite daunting. That’s not the case with The Optimist Daily, where positive news is in high supply. Our Health section covers the latest good news from the health sector, featuring solutions ranging from mental and physical health to immunity, nutrition, and cutting edge medical research.
How To Eat For Better Digestion, According to Ayurveda
Fill your basket with fresh mint. Fill your basket with fresh cilantro, cucumbers, sprouts, watermelons, berries, and cherries! The summer harvest is abundant and readily available. Eating what's in season is not only more affordable and delicious (have you bit into a juicy, sweet plum yet?) but Read More...
How eggs became a victory for the animal welfare movement
Fifteen years ago, few Americans other than farmers seemed to be thinking much about hens. Backyard chicken coops weren’t really a thing. No major animal rights group spent time or money on farm animal welfare. “Factory farming” wasn’t yet a catchphrase. No longer. In recent years, there Read More...
IBM's Watson AI saved a woman from leukemia
IBM's Watson has done everything from winning at Jeopardy to cooking exotic meals, but it appears to have accomplished its greatest feat yet: saving a life. University of Tokyo doctors report that the artificial intelligence diagnosed a 60-year-old woman's rare form of leukemia that had been Read More...
Let them eat bugs: US startup sees future of sustainable food in creepy crawlies
The experiment started inside the laundry room of an apartment in Atlanta, Georgia, where the two college students created a nursery for 700 larvae of black soldier flies they bought on Amazon for $20. Sean Warner and Patrick Pittaluga weren’t raising the writhing bugs as pets. They were Read More...
Italians show their love for food with new law
The procedure for donating food can be so full of risk and barriers that it deters restaurants and supermarkets from giving away food. Laws prevented donating food marginally past its sell-by date, and business could face sanctions if they did. In Italy however, that is no longer the case. Read More...
Those pigs in Westminster: inside London's most central urban farm
If you stand on a planter made from old potato boxes in London’s most central city farm, you can see the flag flying from the Houses of Parliament. As a military helicopter rumbles overhead, two lambs caper around the yard. A pregnant sow snores in the shade. The animals seem remarkably blase Read More...
Organic food fights back against 'non-gmo' rival
I did a little experiment the other day. I stood outside a Whole Foods Market in Washington, DC, with two cartons of large brown eggs. One carton had the words "Non-GMO Project Verified" on it, with a little orange butterfly. It also said cage-free. The other carton had a different label; a green Read More...
Coming soon to a doctor’s office near you: Prescriptions for vegetables
Eating well can help prevent chronic conditions including heart disease, diabetes and obesity. So why aren’t more doctors prescribing broccoli and flaxseed? Despite the wealth of research linking nutritious diets to disease prevention, the importance of food receives little attention in most Read More...
Italy adopts new law to slash food waste
Italy has passed into law a raft of new measures to try to reduce the mountain of food wasted in the country each year. The bill - backed by 181 Senators, with two against and 16 abstaining - aims to cut waste one million tonnes from the estimated five million it wastes each year. It has been Read More...
Canna-butter, astro eggs and other costly superfood trends
Farmers are turning to moon almanacs to breed healthier chickens Cannabis is being infused into coconut oil, teas, canna-butter You're down with acai, take echinacea on the reg, and consider coconut oil a mainstay in your home. But a new class of high-powered superfoods is pushing the envelope even Read More...