Nutrition & Wellness
From learning about the health benefits of turmeric to staying up-to-date with the latest superfood trends, discover the best diet tips to improve your health.
The secret to happiness is regularly eating meals with others
A new study found that regularly eating meals in isolation is more strongly associated with unhappiness than any other factor apart from having a mental illness. This research is far from the first to suggest a link between eating with others and happiness. Researchers at the University of Oxford Read More...
Coffee waste is now fetching a 480 percent premium over coffee itself
Aida Batlle grows coffee on her family’s farm in the hills surrounding El Salvador’s Santa Ana Volcano. Like generations before her, she had little use for the skin that encases the beans, so she’d turn it into cheap fertilizer or, more frequently, trash it. Then one day, walking past some Read More...
The Mediterranean diet could help you fend off the risks of air pollution
Researchers recently made an intriguing finding when they compared men and women who most followed the Mediterranean diet to those who follow it least, while factoring in their exposure to air pollution. Death from all causes increased by 5 percent for every 10 parts per billion increase in Read More...
The most popular burgers at Costco right now aren’t made from meat
The trend of eating plant-based foods as substitute for meat products is growing faster than you think. Veggie burgers like the Impossible Burger and Beyond Burgers have become popular because they taste and appear like real burgers do, but no burger has hit the market so successfully as the Read More...
To lower your risk of heart disease, make these foods a part of your diet
With state-sponsored food guidelines seemingly changing all the time and food trends coming and going, it can be challenging to know what foods we should really be eating in order to stay healthy. Should we have a low fat diet or a high fat diet? Should we put oils on our food or avoid them all Read More...
From Syria to Kansas: How smuggled seeds could revitalize wheat in America
As temperatures rise, pests and diseases are moving north into the US heartland, killing crops and diminishing yields. To combat this, researchers are turning to a wild grass variety whose seeds were smuggled out of Syria as the bombs fell. Take a look here at the incredible journey these seeds Read More...
Black gold: can homegrown caviar catch on?
Can caviar from North Carolina stand up to the cheaper Chinese product? A local farm tries to get Americans to Read More...
For good health, stick to one of these two diets
The traditional Mediterranean diet is rich in fruit, vegetables, nuts, cereals and olive oil, includes a moderate amount of fish and poultry, and has very little dairy, red meat, processed meat and sweets. The Nordic diet is similar, focusing on vegetables, berries, pulses, whole grain cereals Read More...
The meat industry has a bigger impact on society than we might realize
The conversation surrounding the production and consumption of meat usually involves the emissions that come as a result of raising livestock. What we rarely think about is how the meat industry employs workers and supports the livelihoods and food security of almost a 1.3 billion people. We also Read More...
This former steel mill will soon be a tech-filled greenhouse
The next Gotham Greens location will convert old industry in Baltimore into a hydroponic farm, to provide local produce (and Read More...