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An Ode to Chocolate

12 Feb 2025

I have always liked chocolate. I grew up on it. Every morning my mother blended a heaping spoonful of cocoa powder with a little milk, some sugar and a touch of salt (to decrease the bitterness)....

The Medicinal Garden Kit Will Probably Not Save You

7 Feb 2025

The ad is quite confrontational. “The Plants That Will Disappear First in a Crisis.” Given the disaster that is unfolding in the United States right now, it caught my attention. In a crisis, the ad...

Confronting Bulimia

29 Jan 2025

Bulimia nervosa, or more commonly known as bulimia, is an eating and psychiatric disorder characterized by binge eating followed by intentional purging. The latter is usually done in order to...

Vitamins Are Vital To Life

23 Jan 2025

The term “food accessory factor” was coined by British biochemist Frederick Gowland Hopkins in 1906 after he demonstrated that rats fed a diet of proteins, fats, carbohydrates and minerals failed...

Can a Glass of Milk a Day Reduce the Risk of Colon Cancer?

15 Jan 2025

The dairy industry is smiling because a study published in the prestigious journal, Nature, concluded that “dairy products help protect against colorectal cancer, and that this is driven largely or...

Evidence Mounts Against Ultra-Processed Foods

10 Jan 2025

This article was first published in The Montreal Gazette.

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