Is fish really brain food? P.G. Wodehouse certainly thought so. In his wonderful 鈥淛eeves鈥� stories, Bertie Wooster encourages his brainy butler to eat more fish whenever a particularly challenging...
Numerous Internet posts attempt to scare dog owners with questions like 鈥淚s It a Dog Food Aide or Automotive Antifreeze?鈥� The reference is to propylene glycol, a chemical added to some dog foods to...
Easy answer. No. There is nothing that can be consumed that causes a greater expenditure of calories than it provides. But advertisers have given the idea a shot. But it wasn鈥檛 long before the idea...
Yerba Mate, the ad says, has powerful rejuvenating effects. Well, who wouldn鈥檛 go for a little rejuvenation? So what is this wonder product? Yerba is a tea brewed from the dried leaves of the Ilex...
Absolutely not. But here is the question I got:聽"A friend told me that that ground up earthworms are being used as fillers in many meat products like wieners and bologna. The name on the package is...
The second part of the question is easy to answer.聽 鈥淪altpetre,鈥� (the term refers either to potassium or sodium nitrate) has no effect on carnal urges.聽 The story that this chemical was put into...
While PET has a very low permeability when it comes to carbon dioxide, it readily allows oxygen to pass through. And oxygen is the enemy of wine! When we talk about storing soft drinks,...
My question is regarding the treatment of ADHD. I'm a psychologist in聽private practice on the West Island, specializing in assessments for ADHD and聽learning disabilities, etc. I usually talk about...
In North America we hear a great deal about chemicals such as plasticizers leaching out of plastic. In this case, though, the problem is not what the plastic releases but what it retains, namely,...
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