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By Susan Burke March The stevia plant is a perennial that does best in sunny, warm climates with plenty of rain. In the battle of commercial sweeteners, consumers who want to enjoy the taste of sweet without calories and without artificial ingredients have increasingly turned to packaged stevia powders and extracts. Here are some facts...
By Catherine Saint Louis Efforts to improve what children eat should begin before they even learn to walk, a series of nutritional studies published on Tuesday has found. Taken together, the data indicate that infant feeding patterns persist far longer than has been appreciated. “Our early taste preferences, particularly for fruits and vegetables, and on the flip side...
The Journal of Wild Mushrooming is a fascinating resource for all things mushrooms. They say there are 10,000 described species in North American alone, but that may represent only a third to a fifth of what’s really out there! In percentages, 50 percent are inedible, 25 percent edible but tasteless, 20 percent will make you...
By Steve Clark I’m a Genetically Modified Organism. That is the reason I’m alive and writing this essay. Several years ago, I had several serious bumps on my head, which turned out to be active melanoma tumors. My doctors sent me in for scans and they located several additional tumors in my lungs. The prognosis...
I always tell my clients who see me for weight loss that their weight may be an important number, but it doesn’t tell you everything. Weight doesn’t always prove how healthy someone is — more important numbers include blood pressure — a critical number to measure — but blood pressure doesn’t always correlate with weight....
Editor’s note: Michelle’s Foods of The Americas series continues this week with the first of a three-column series on squash, the noblest of vegetables. By Michelle Bakeman The following is an excerpt from “The Pumpkin,” by fireside poet John Greenleaf Whittier: On the banks of the Xenil the dark Spanish maiden Comes up with the...
Back in the early 1980s, I was living in New York City. At the time, fish on the menu was ho-hum, usually a tasteless, overcooked filet. Suddenly, Chilean Sea Bass appeared and was all the rage, commanding a pretty high price. Why had no one ever bothered with it before? Maybe because the original name...
By Editors at dLife.com Sugar does not improve mood and, on the contrary, it can make people less alert and more tired after its consumption, according to a new European study. The research team set out to examine the myth of the “sugar rush,” and attempted to answer the question of whether sugar can really...
By Nancy Clark For most of the past 40 years, dieters have been told to limit dietary fat, believing it leads to obesity and heart disease. Today, dieters hear messages to indulge in a very high-fat (ketogenic) diet and limit the carbohydrate-based foods that fueled their low-fat diet. Confusing, eh? The bottom line is: calories...
By Delthia Ricks In the first published example of how the gut may play a role in autism, scientists have found that a “fecal transplant” helped to substantially improve behavior and gastrointestinal health in children with the neurodevelopmental disorder. The research involved a very small number of children — 18 — with autism who also had severe gastrointestinal...
Are you a frugal chef? If you’re making hummus from canned garbanzo beans (chickpeas), don’t throw away the drained water — that ‘bean juice’ is called aquafaba, and it’s got a lot going for it! According to the McGill University Office for Science and Society, aquafaba is an amalgamation of the Latin words for water...
By Krista Conger Some breast cancers return decades later. Now, researchers at Stanford, joined by collaborators at several other institutions, have subcategorized tumors to predict recurrence, guide treatment decisions and improve drug development. Molecular data obtained from breast cancer cells can be used to predict which patients are at a high risk for recurrence even...
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