Some things can be classified with high acidity, like lemon juice, or low acidity, like bicarbonate. Acidity is often measured on a pH scale. This is because Danish chemist S酶ren Peter Lauritz...
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), an arm of the World Health Organization lists processed meats in its 鈥淐ategory 1,鈥� reserved for substances known to cause cancer in humans....
A migraine is often misunderstood as just 鈥渁 bad headache,鈥� but this assumption couldn't be further from the truth. Migraines are a complex neurological disorder, far more debilitating than a...
In 1995, researchers from Cambridge University asked the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society for a sample of an eyeball that had been sitting in a jar on a shelf since 1844. That eye had...
鈥淛ust breathe!鈥� is probably the worst thing that you can tell someone who is hyperventilating. The fact is, they can鈥檛! Whatever the cause of the hyperventilation, screaming and telling someone to...
This article was first published in聽The Montreal Gazette.
Want to prolong life? To start with, you need three corpses from healthy young men accidentally killed in within the previous 12 hours.
Elie Metchnikoff drank sour milk every day. He believed that the lactic acid bacteria found in fermented foods like yogurt, especially the聽Lactobacillus bulgaricus聽strain, helped to promote...
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