On my last day travelling in the Netherlands, I stepped into a corner store to pick up a smoothie, when I stopped to examine the 5-colour scale on the front of the package.
Scientific studies are often speckled with words like 鈥渃an,鈥� 鈥渃ould,鈥� 鈥渕ay,鈥� 鈥渁ppear,鈥� 鈥渓inked鈥� or 鈥渃orrelated.鈥� This is bothersome. These terms are just too 鈥渋ffy鈥� to allow for any solid...
Over the past couple of years, there鈥檚 been a lot of buzz about ashwagandha. This herb, estimated to have an annual market value of $42 million USD is available in health food stores and on Amazon,...
Grievances against the pharmaceutical industry are common in new media spaces. Influencers on Instagram tell us to shun drugs and embrace the 鈥渘atural.鈥� Diatribes are shared on Facebook against the...
The name for 鈥榩ineapple鈥� is a misnomer. The fruit, also known as Ananas comosus, belongs to neither the pine nor apple genus (Pinus and Malus, respectively). In the Middle Ages, the word 鈥榓pple鈥�...
The soy sauce into which you dip your egg roll or use in your meat marinade may just be the world鈥檚 oldest produced condiment, dating back at least 2,500 years. The original Chinese method of...
Over the years I have answered, or at least tried to have answered, a staggering variety of questions. 鈥淚s it true that KFC is made from mutant laboratory chickens and not real chickens?鈥� No. 鈥淐an...
Wishful thinking can sometimes trump science. With 鈥渂reast is best鈥� echoing in their heads, and too few hours of sleep, new mothers may latch onto some seductive propositions about boosting their...
鈥淗ow long have you been consuming gene therapied pork?鈥� That鈥檚 the question Joe Mercola, snake oil salesman supreme and one of the world鈥檚 richest doctors, recently asked on his website. (His...
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