You may be an old hand at vitamins and minerals, but are you getting enough phytochemicals in your diet? What’s a phytochemical, anyway? The prefix phyto comes from the Greek for plant. That bit of etymology tips us off to the fact that these substances are found only in plant foods–the less processed, the better. It turns out that many phytochemicals also have health-promoting effects inside the human body. More…
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I like to think I’m pretty savvy when it comes to exotic foods. Buckwheat? I’ve sprouted it. Kambucha? I’ve drunk it. And my favorite grain isn’t wheat, corn, or rice–it’s amaranth.
But then I saw an advertisement for a grain I’d never heard of before. It’s called Salba, and the manufacturer makes some pretty dramatic claims for it. More…
What would you do for science?
If you were an early twentieth-century explorer in the Antarctic, you might have to eat your own huskies.
If you were astronaut, you might have to drink your own urine.
If, on the other hand, you were part of a recent study conducted by the University of Texas, all you had to do was drink soft drinks.