Why your 5-a-day Might Not Keep the Doctor Away
Read Time: 12 min Have we been duped? A deep look into the science of plant-based diets reveals a distinct lack of supporting evidence and considerable potential for harm.
hormesis
How can bitter foods be good for us when they taste so bad? – Resolving the paradox
Read Time: 13 min Keir Watson presents his carefully argued hypothesis based on evolutionary considerations of hunter-gatherer feast-famine cycles, that explains why bitter foods stimulate cellular functions essential for health.
The bitter truth is sweeter than we thought
Read Time: 10 min (image © Achim Schleuning / CC-BY-SA-4.0) Cocktail bitters like Angostura and Peychaud’s have pedigrees going back to the 1830s. Looking like something out of a Victorian …
July News Round-Up
Read Time: 3 min Sleep and health: inflammation and ‘intestinal jet-lag’ The Mail (6th July) explains why ‘Too little and too much sleep is as damaging to your health’. Dr …
July News Round-Up
Read Time: 4 min Cod stocks recover. Iodine deficiency in pregnancy. Cauliflower rice. Sugar – the public health debate.
The chemical warfare on your plate
Read Time: 9 min The fascinating story of how natural insecticides in plants can be good for us, but how wheat has evolved the ability to turn an insect’s immune …