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Chemistry lesson for The Food Babe鈥 and everyone else #15: Cause and Effect

21 Mar 2017

Studies are the heart of science. But which studies do we take to heart? That is becoming more and more of a critical question as studies are being cranked out at a frenetic pace exploring every...

Chemistry lesson for The Food Babe鈥 and everyone else #14: No, silly putty is not hiding in our food

21 Mar 2017

鈥淵ou Won鈥檛 Believe Where Silly Putty Is Hiding In Your Food.鈥 So begins one of the Food Babe鈥檚 attempts to shock us about how the food industry is poisoning us. This time the target of the wild...

Taking a Bite out of Crocodile Hype

20 Mar 2017

You鈥檝e got to give it to the quacks. They are often clever people. And very adept at making mountains out of molehills. One of the latest miracles out there is, believe it or not, crocodile blood....

Advice About Food Is Sometimes Half-Baked

20 Mar 2017

Back in the early 70s, just as I was developing an interest in the chemistry of food, I came across a witty quote by Mark Twain. 鈥淧art of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and...

The Healing Code

20 Mar 2017

You would think it鈥檚 a Saturday Night Live skit. And it would be funny if it didn鈥檛 have a serious side. Just picture this. Using different fingers, a man points at four specific parts of his body...

Lipozene and Weight Loss

20 Mar 2017

The "active" ingredient in Lipozene is glucomannan, a form of dietary fiber that is extracted from the root of the konjac plant. Fiber, by definition, is any type of food component that cannot be...

Alkaline Nonsense

20 Mar 2017

It is so seductively simple.听 If you want to avoid cancer, just make sure your body is 鈥渁lkaline!鈥澨 Here is the rationale.听 When a cell becomes cancerous it reduces its use of oxygen and cranks up...

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