Food & Nutrition

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Cannabis Compounds Have Been Shown To Slow Colon Cancer In The Lab

Some cannabinoid compounds may inhibit the growth of colon cancer cells, according to new research.

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How Climate Friendly Diets Tend To Be Good For Us
More climate-friendly diets are also healthier, according to a study examining the carbon footprint of what more than 16,000 Americans eat in a day.

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Fermented Foods: The Missing Ingredient to Amazing Health
You can take everyday foods and transform them into delicious superfoods at home in your kitchen with minimal effort and almost no money! Simply by fermenting foods, you significantly multiply their health-building properties. Everyday foods like yogurt and sauerkraut are just the beginning of what is possible.

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Why Does Some Tap Water Taste Weird?
Every year Australia’s councils contest the academy awards of the water industry: the Best Tasting Tap Water in Australia. Entrants compete on clarity and colour as well as taste and odour.

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How Families Can Eat Healthier Every unhappy family might be unhappy in its own way, but when they sit down together at the table, they’re alike according to one important measure: they eat better.

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This Natural Bran Antioxidant Keeps Food Fresh Longer A natural antioxidant found in grain bran could preserve food longer and replace synthetic antioxidants currently in use, according to new research.

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Shellfish Tops The List Of US Adult Food Allergies More than 10 percent of adults in the United States—over 26 million—are estimated to have a food allergy, and almost twice as many people believe they do, according to new research.

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4 Tips For Safely Cooking And Keeping Your Turkey

For countless households, Christmas is turkey time. The bird takes pride of place in festive meals across the world – but if not stored, handled and cooked properly it can cause serious food poisoning.

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winter blues and broken bones: how to get enough vitamin d3 Vitamin D is often referred to as the “sunshine vitamin”. It is produced in your skin in response to sunlight and is a vital organic compound supporting the absorption of calcium and protecting bone strength, supporting immune function, and regulating mood. Deficiencies in Vitamin D can lead to...

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Why A Little Bit Of Leftovers Really Kills Our Self-Control New research looks at the tendency to overeat when we only have a little bit of food left over—and how we justify it by convincing ourselves that it’s not as unhealthy as it is.

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5 Ways To Encourage People To Reduce Eating Meat Meat makes a meal, so goes the saying. But with more people than ever before ditching meat for plant-based alternatives, it seems meaty dishes are starting to go out of fashion.

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Once You Lack Folate, The Damage Can’t Be Fixed Folate deficiency creates more problems in connection with cell division and DNA replication than previously thought, a study shows.

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How The Mediterranean Diet May Help Your Neurons Live Longer Historians consider it one of the ‘cradles of civilization,’ but for many scientists today the real value of the Mediterranean basin does not lie in its contribution to history.

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Which Diet Is Best, Low Carb, Paleo Or Fasting?

We are bombarded with books and TV shows telling us what we should be eating and how best to lose weight.

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How Important Is Eating Breakfast? In the middle of the last century, popular nutrition author Adelle Davis advised people to eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, and dinner like a pauper.

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Do You Get Diabetes From Eating Too Much Sugar? There is a widespread belief that sugar is the sole cause of diabetes. After all, the disease is characterised by high levels of sugar in the blood.

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Why Vaping Marijuana Might Be Too Much For First-Timers Vaping marijuana instead of smoking an equal dose increases short-term anxiety, paranoia, memory loss, and distraction, a small study of infrequent users suggests.

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Eating a low-gluten, high-fiber diet changes bacteria in the gut, decreases gastrointestinal discomfort such as bloating, and is linked to modest weight loss, according to new research.

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Healthy Guts Are Swarming With Bugs, So What Do They Do?
The healthy human body is swarming with microorganisms. They inhabit every nook and cranny on the surfaces of our body. But by far the largest collection of microorganisms reside in our gastrointestinal tract – our gut.

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Marijuana Expands Into 3 More States, But What About Nationwide Legalization?
The midterm elections have further loosened marijuana restrictions in the United States. Voters in three of four states with ballot proposals on marijuana approved those initiatives.

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Food is the Best Medicine Leading to Longevity and Health
In a modern diet, we eat many foods that are not good for us. Because of the ease of preparing processed foods, we are eating a lot of unhealthy fats and by doing this we are actually causing a lot of our own health problems. Food can be directly linked to many different diseases. Therefore, it’s essential that we watch what we eat and how we eat it.