My first meeting with (3R,4R,5R)-1,3,4,5,6-pentahydroxyhexan-2-one, less formally known as 鈥減sicose鈥 or 鈥渁llulose,鈥 was way back in my graduate school days. I was studying the molecular structure...
I鈥檝e judged a lot of science fairs in my life. I鈥檝e seen innumerable baking soda volcanoes, vitamin C analyses and models of the solar system. Usually, the judges鈥 task is over once the winners are...
It isn鈥檛 a pretty fruit. Its skin looks like something that should be on the back of an alligator. It sometimes is actually called the 鈥渁lligator pear.鈥 And it has been shunned by some people...
The bloggers are abuzz about a paper in the Annals of Internal Medicine that after reviewing 72 major studies found no relationship between saturated fat intake and heart disease. The reaction was...
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...