Medicine
Is Licorice Dangerous?
Overindulgence in black licorice, according to the FDA, can cause potassium levels to fall, potentially leading to arrhythmia, a rise in blood pressure or other problems
November 01, 2011 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Is it Safe to Eat Roadkill?
Enough with the jokes already. Some people are serious about looking to the roadside for an alternative to mass-market meats
October 18, 2011 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Five Nobel Laureates Who Made Food History
These five Nobelists have made food safer or more available, or increased our knowledge of it
October 07, 2011 |
By Lisa Bramen
The Boston Globe of 1900 Imagines the Year 2000
A utopian vision of Boston promises no slums, no traffic jams, no late mail deliveries and, best of all, night baseball games
October 04, 2011 |
By Matt Novak
Is Home Economics Class Still Relevant?
"Too many Americans simply don't know how to cook," says a historian, and that has contributed to a health crisis
September 07, 2011 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Food For Emergency Situations
While it's hard to be the consummate kitchen maven in the face of disaster, it's still possible to manage food prep without a fully functional kitchen
August 25, 2011 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Sweet Garden Success
Meal planning has become like triage; we eat whatever is most urgently ripe
July 15, 2011 |
By Lisa Bramen
The Next West Nile Virus?
The chikungunya virus has escaped Africa and is traveling around the world via a widespread, invasive, voracious mosquito
June 29, 2011 |
By Carrie Arnold
Insects as a Food Source
Entomophagy—the fancy Latin term for eating insects—is beginning to catch on in the Western Hemisphere
June 28, 2011 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Salisbury Steak: Civil War Health Food
After 30 years of research Dr. Salisbury finally published his ideas, setting off one of the earliest American fad diets
June 22, 2011 |
By Lisa Bramen
USDA Demolishing the Food Pyramid
The USDA began offering nutritional advice in 1894. We had 12 food groups in the 1930s, seven in the 1940s, four in the 1950s, then a pyramid and now a plate
June 01, 2011 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Inside the ER at Mt. Everest
Dr. Luanne Freer, founder of the mountain’s emergency care center, sees hundreds of patients each climbing season at the foot of the Himalayas
June 01, 2011 |
By Molly Loomis
The National Museum of Health and Medicine
Once it re-opens in its new Silver Spring, Maryland location this fall, this site will scare and educate, with displays of prosthetic eyes, amputated limbs and incomplete skeletons
June 2011 |
By Tony Perrottet
The Wood in Your Food
Ardent label readers out there know to scan nutritional labels for ingredients that they don't want in their diet. But most people probably don't keep an eye out for "wood pulp"
May 17, 2011 |
By Jesse Rhodes
New Tool Maps Food Deserts in the U.S.
Approximately 23.5 million Americans are living in food deserts, most of whom live in urban areas
May 12, 2011 |
By Jesse Rhodes
What Secrets Do Ancient Medical Texts Hold?
The Smithsonian's Alain Touwaide studies ancient books to identify medicines used thousands of years ago
May 2011 |
By Megan Gambino
A Triumph in the War Against Cancer
Oncologist Brian Druker developed a new treatment for a deadly cancer, leading to a breakthrough that has transformed medicine
May 2011 |
By Terence Monmaney
Ban the Bag: Should Kids Be Forbidden From Bringing Lunch to School?
For students at Little Village Academy in Chicago, bringing lunch to school is verboten. Principals of Chicago's public schools are allowed to implement a "no bag lunch" policy if they say it serves the needs of their students. Principal Elsa Carmona began the ban at Little Village Academy six year...
April 14, 2011 |
By Jesse Rhodes
I Think I'll Go Eat Dirt
My pregnancy cravings have been pretty tame so far—kettle corn, Ben and Jerry’s Cherry Garcia, sweet gherkins, grapefruit. Some women confess much more outlandish obsessions (fried eggs with mint sauce, black olives on cheesecake) on various online forums, and many pregnant ladies want to nibble wh...
January 28, 2011 |
By admin
Snacks to Fuel a Workout
Thirty percent of New Year's resolutions made by Americans this year relate to weight, diet and health, according to a recent survey by the Barna Group, a Ventura, California-based research firm focused on the intersection between faith and culture. Unfortunately, a rather grim statistic glares tho...
January 13, 2011 |
By Megan Gambino
