When it comes to food, everyone has likes and dislikes. Chocolate generally gets favourable comments, spinach less so. But no flavour seems to elicit the degree of polarizing comments as that of...
I am聽no alarmist when it comes to "artificial chemicals" used in food or cosmetic production. But I do question the use of colourants because they have no function other than changing the...
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鈥淵ou are what you eat鈥� is a time honoured truism. After all, food is the only raw material that enters our body, so we are literally made of what we eat. That of course includes our brain. But what...
If you watched the news, read newspapers or surfed the web recently you will have been inundated with pictures of bacon and headlines describing it as carcinogenic. That鈥檚 because the International...
You may want them in your jeans, but you probably want to keep them away from your genes. They鈥檙e 鈥渘ano鈥� particles of titanium dioxide, about ten billionths of a meter in diameter that can exhibit...
