Margarine originally was a cheap butter substitute made by emulsifying beef fat with water or milk. Eventually animal fat was replaced by partially saturated vegetable fats, hardened by the process...
Remember Bugs Bunny's classic question, "What's up Doc?"聽 Well, I'll tell you what's up.聽 Carrot consumption!聽 Why?聽 Because those polyethylene-bagged cute little baby carrots are extremely...
Vitamins have a great public image. Even the term itself derives from the Latin 鈥渧ita,鈥� meaning life. And indeed vitamins are essential to life. Our bodies cannot make these nutrients, so we must...
Want to reduce your risk of heart disease? The California Walnut Commission makes it simple. Eat Walnuts. And the U.S. Food and Drug Administration agrees. Sort of. The following claim is allowed...
Maple syrup as a cancer fighter? That鈥檚 what a press release from the Federation of Quebec Maple Syrup Producers claims. 鈥淩ecent studies have shown Canadian maple syrup to contain more than twenty...
It is a very small molehill. But to the folks at the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics (CSC) it seems more like Mount Everest. This organization鈥檚 recently released report features a cute baby smothered...
Imagine your brain literally turning to sponge. That鈥檚 just what happens in a family of diseases known as the 鈥渟pongiform encephalopathies鈥� which leave the brain riddled with holes. In humans,...
Colas derive their colour from caramel, which basically is a complex mixture of compounds produced when various carbohydrates such as sucrose, fructose, glucose or starches are heated to a high...
One wouldn鈥檛 expect that frying a steak exposes the cook to the same chemical that is used in mothballs, but it does. Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology were...
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