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.
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...
This app delivers leftover food to the hungry, instead of to the trash
Jasmine Crowe had been hosting formal pop-up dinners for the homeless in Atlanta for about two and a half years when a video about her efforts went viral in January 2016. The most common question among viewers surprised her. “Which restaurants donated the food?” she says they asked. “And the Read More...
Why mushrooms need to become a part of your diet
In the past, food scientists often praised mushrooms as healthy because what they don't contribute to the diet; they contain no cholesterol and gluten and are low in fat, sugars, sodium and calories. But that was selling mushrooms short. They are very healthy foods and could have medicinal Read More...
Meet the creator of the meat-free burgers of Impossible Foods
On an otherwise unadorned table at an event space overlooking Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour, glass bowls displayed the constituent parts of the Impossible Burger. One contained a B-vitamin-laced potato protein paste, another wheat protein, a third a globule of coconut oil. In a fourth, shimmering Read More...
These are the foods you should be eating to improve your mental health
The Mirror recently ran a story about an 82-year-old dementia sufferer who got her memory back after changing her diet. It may sound a bit tabloid-esque, but there is serious evidence that diet can have a major impact on mental health and memory. In the story, the woman’s memory returns after Read More...