Nutrition & Wellness
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Ikea wants to replace their fast food items with worm balls and bug burgers
Ikea is known for the Swedish meatballs and cheap hotdogs that tempt you when you walk out of the store. In the not so distant future, however, you may be coming across a different, more sustainable variety of foods including worm balls and algae hot dogs. Ikea’s innovation lab has been working Read More...
Chinese agricultural miracle could feed the planet without destroying it
The study was mammoth. It cost $54 million, and involved some 1,000 researchers and 65,000 local bureaucrats. But academics around the globe are calling the results an agricultural Read More...
Let's stop pretending the American breakfast isn't just dessert in the morning
Let’s be honest: breakfast in the US is nothing more than dessert in disguise. A muffin is essentially a cupcake, a waffle is just another word for cookie, and cereal is simply crushed up cookies in a bowl. Yes, they may look a bit different, but if you look at the nutritional facts of breakfast Read More...
Addicted to sugar? These healthy snacks will help satisfy your sweet tooth
We all know about the negative effects of sugar, and yet, it can be so difficult to stop eating it. Luckily, there are a few healthy low-sugar and no-added-sugar snacks out there that can satisfy your sweet tooth. Whether you like savory or sweet, these are the 6 best snacks for anyone trying to Read More...
The Real Organic Project: farmers make their own organic label
Worth billions of dollars, the organic label is the only federally regulated food label that conveys any information about how that food was produced. Certified organic is the fastest-growing food segment—and the distinction can be profitable for farmers (and also costly and difficult to Read More...
What you eat and how it’s grown is crucial to combatting climate change
Few people consider the impacts of the food they eat, despite the fact that globally, food systems account for roughly one quarter of all manmade greenhouse gas emissions. That’s more than the entire transportation sector, more than all industrial practices, and roughly the same as the production Read More...
Growing food year round is possible anywhere with these hi-tech shipping containers
When a Boston-based company began upcycling old shipping containers into indoor vertical hydroponic growing machines, the hope was that it would allow more everyday people to start growing fresh, local food in communities around the world, especially in places where the conditions are not ripe for Read More...
'Blended burger' allows a simple shift to more sustainable eating
Burgers are possibly the most ubiquitous meal on Americans' dinner plates, but they're also among the most resource-intensive: Beef accounts for nearly half of the land use and greenhouse gas emissions associated with the food Americans Read More...
How urban farmers are growing food without soil or sunlight
You don’t need acres of luscious, green fields in order to grow food. You don’t even need soil or sunlight to do it either. In crowded cities, urban farmers are getting innovative and growing food in the unlikeliest of places, from bomb shelters to abandoned industrial yards using hydroponic Read More...
Science is bringing on a revolution in the relationship we have with animals
Plenty of research suggests that animals, from the chicken to the octopus, can feel in a similar way to humans. Despite our knowledge that animals have sentience, we continue to ignore this and allow for inhumane practices like branding to be done on animals. If animals can feel, shouldn’t they Read More...