The state of California is planning to ban brominated vegetable oil (BVO), potassium bromate, propylparaben and Red Dye No. 3 from use in foods by 2027. BVO prevents citrus oils from separating in...
If you are Canadian, you may have seen the letters 鈥淣PN鈥� followed by a series of numbers on the packaging of a health product you picked up at the pharmacy, things like vitamin supplements,...
Serendipitous discoveries are legendary in science. Fleming鈥檚 discovery of penicillin, Perkin鈥檚 of mauve, Silver鈥檚 of post-it notes, Roentgen鈥檚 of x-rays, Fahlberg鈥檚 of saccharin, Plunkett鈥檚 of...
The fact that the sauce was packaged in a box shaped like a coffin should have been a clue. On a trip to New Orleans I walked into one of the many shops that sell an array of hot sauces and are set...
Is this product a scam? I often get emails that start off with that query. The reference is usually to some dietary supplement the questioner encountered on the Internet that promises to...
Imagine not being able to eat a meal with family or friends. That is the case for people who have a condition known as short bowel syndrome (SBS). When large segments of the intestines are missing,...
My first gray hair appeared when I was the age of twenty-three, within two months of my mom passing away. Of course, this is anecdotal evidence and should not be taken as proof that stress causes...
As we get older, our memory declines. What if I told you there was now a 鈥渟imple鈥� and 鈥渆asy鈥� successful method to boost your memory, the result of research from genuine scientists at a university...
It was a bestseller in 1615! 鈥淭he English Huswife,鈥� by Gervase Markham, was one of the first compilations of culinary and medical recipes ever published. Wildly popular despite the fact that at the...
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