Allergies are frequently misunderstood, and that’s saying a lot since science doesn’t even fully understand them. But, what we do understand allows us to expose quackery and help steer our ship or knowledge towards the right answer. We’ll start with an interesting correlation: children
Since the beginning of June, every student in the city of Baltimore, regardless of income level, is being offered a free breakfast and lunch every school day under a federal program that allows school districts to eliminate a decades-old meal-subsidy structure for students in
There’s truth in the saying “everybody poops,” and according to my toxicology professor Joseph Dietz, it’s totally healthy as long as you aren’t pooping more than >3 or 250g per day. An interesting fact though, is that how you poop also has an impact
Sugar is a pretty sweet business: our evolution designed us to love it as the easy-to-use energy molecules that glucose,fructose, and sucrose are, so it should be no surprise that global sugar consumption rates have been rising non-stop for about half a century. What
In the footsteps of a new law mandating commercial buildings to carry green roofs (covered in plants and/or solar panels), France has now struck a blow against food waste. A staggering 1/3 of all food is spoiled or squandered before anyone has the chance
It’s a common assumption that bioenergy is a new green technology, or at least one that is a better alternative to current fossil fuels, but this often isn’t the case. Statistics behind bioenergy look impressive on the face of it. 33.6% of energy in
“Freedom of expression and information is also a fundamental right of our democracies. The right balance therefore needs to be found between the fundamental right to equality of women and men, the breaking of gender stereotypes in the media and the fundamental right to
Long before humans understood genes, they were selectively breeding animals (like dogs, sheep, etc) and plants to improve desired characteristics. Much of what we eat today on the international plate were crops that were once only grown in specific corners of the world, and
This might sound far-fetched, but ironically the idea isn’t even new. Since around the 1970s, humans have been successfully turning agricultural waste into actual food with the help of fungus and/or bacteria. In fact there exists at least one highly successful food based on
The common perception about drug addiction, or about the cause of addiction in general, is that people get addicted to drugs because the drugs are addictive and trick their body into thinking it needs them. This may, or may not, be supplemented with a
