Food & Nutrition

Details: Written by: Carol Clark

A compound in the leaves of a common shrub, the American beautyberry, boosts an antibiotic’s activity against antibiotic-resistant staph bacteria, scientists report.

Details: Written by: Jeffrey Miller

An Ode To Mac And Cheese, The Poster Child For Processed Food

In January 2015, food sales at restaurants overtook those at grocery stores for the first time. Most thought this marked a permanent shift in the American meal.

Details: Written by: Doreen Virtue

Food cravings often stem from basic unmet needs for fun, excitement, or love -- issues most would consider "normal" and within our power to self-heal. Some people's food cravings remain constant; for example, they always crave ice cream. Other people go through "food kicks" in different weeks.

Details: Written by: Tim Spector

Why One-size-fits-all Diets Don’t Work

In the UK, around one in three adults are obese and many more are overweight. In the US, around two in five adults and nearly one in five children are obese.

Details: Written by: Peter Robert Ebeling

My Vitamin D Levels Are Low, Should I Take A Supplement?

If your blood test results suggest you’re low on vitamin D, you’re not alone – nearly one-third of the Australian population isn’t getting enough of the sunshine vitamin.

Details: Written by: Beata Mostafavi

Why Picky Eaters May Not Grow Out Of It

If your preschooler pushes their dinner plate away or wages battles against taking another bite of a vegetable they don’t like, they may not grow out of it anytime soon, according to a new study.

Details: Written by: Lisa Bricknell

How To Stay Safe In Restaurants And Cafes

Now we have fewer cases of COVID-19, and restrictions are lifting, many of us are thinking of rejuvenating our social lives by heading to our local cafe or favourite restaurant.

Details: Written by: David Clayton

If You're Struggling To Lose Weight, While Intermittent Fasting This Might Be Why

Intermittent fasting is a way of losing weight that favours flexibility over calorie counting.

Details: Written by: Clare Collins

What's The Best Diet For Weight Loss?

When it comes to weight loss, there are no magic tricks that guarantee success. What works for you is likely to be different to what works for your partner, neighbour or workmate.

Details: Written by: Jeffrey Miller

What Every New Baker Should Know About The Yeast All Around Us

With people confined to their homes, there is more interest in home-baked bread than ever before.

Details: Written by: LaTina Emerson

These Foods Are More Common In Diets Of People With Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Foods such as French fries, cheese, cookies, soda, and sports and energy drinks are common in the diets of United States adults with inflammatory bowel disease, according to a new study.

Details: Written by: Rahel Mathews

Is Seltzer Water Healthy?

My health conscious friends and colleagues tell me that they need an alternative to soda but plain water is too boring.

Details: Written by: Brigitte Mars

Sugar Addiction: Like A Kid in a Candy Store

Sugar is not only the most prevalent addiction in our society, but it's also the least recognized and one of the hardest to kick. Yet almost no one calls sugar an addictive substance. What's truly frightening about it is that sugar is found in practically every food product on the grocery store shelf. Are we a society of unknowing addicts? Perhaps.

Details: Written by: James A. Joseph, Ph.D. and Daniel A. Nadeau, M.D.

Color Code Eating: A Way of Life and A Path to Health

Americans seem constantly to be on diets -- grapefruit diets, cabbage diets, low-carb diets, high-protein diets, raw food diets, you name it. The elusive goal of these many plans is weight loss. Yet we have the fattest society ever...

Details: Written by: Lyndal Collins

Now Is Great Time To Try Baking Sourdough Bread

More time at home combined with supermarket shortages of essentials, has fostered the creativity of a whole new generation of home bakers.

Details: Written by: Simon Chokoisky

Fasting In The Twenty-First Century: Breaking the Addiction to Food

Fasting is an art. By creating space in your body, it will help create space in your life for the things you want, including loving relationships, a disease-free body, and prosperity in line with your highest ideals.

Details: Written by: Tyler Daniel Anderson-Sieg

What Is A Brain Freeze?

Has this ever happened to you? You’re eating a delicious ice cream cone or frozen lemonade, so cold and sweet and suddenly, bam, brain freeze! What happened?

Details: Written by: Eric Stann

6 Tips To Keep Food Safe And Limit Waste

There are things you can do to make sure the food you’re eating during the COVID-19 pandemic is safe and to limit waste, experts say.

Details: Written by: Karen Downes

How to Use Essential Oils as a Healing Modality

Knowledge has been handed down through the ages regarding the contributions that essential oils can make in our lives. Some of the stories originated in our grandmothers' tales, some were told by wise sages, while others were revealed by those deeply in touch with the plants. Essential oils are established and revered as a reliable and resourceful healing modality.

Details: Written by: Vannoy Gentles Fite

Essential Oils as Aromatics, in Healing, and for Pleasure

Our ancestors were extremely awe-inspiring in the ways they incorporated essential oils into not just healing and saving lives, but in every aspect of their daily routines and healing methods. Herbs, plants, and the oils derived from them, were the main components of healing in every culture on earth for hundreds of thousands of years.