/oss/taxonomy/term/1749/all en /oss/article/controversial-science-health-news-quirky-science/what-kind-exercise-best <p style="text-align:justify">Let’s face it, running on a treadmill isn’t one of life’s most exciting activities, but it does provide time to contemplate life and think about what is likely to extend it. There’s plenty of evidence that exercise will, which is why one plods away on the treadmill in the first place.</p> Sun, 13 Jul 2014 05:12:17 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 2167 at /oss /oss/article/food-news/superfoods-and-superhype <p>The term “Superfood” has become part of our vocabulary. Such foods are the supposed antitheses of “junk foods” with the implication that if we gorge on them we can delay our earthly departure. The label “superfood” is usually backed by reference to some research that has little bearing on human consumption. There may have been something interesting noted in a laboratory experiment or in some animal feeding study in which rodents consumed far, far more than of the food in question than can be incorporated into the human diet. </p> Mon, 29 Oct 2012 17:52:41 +0000 Joe Schwarcz PhD 1727 at /oss