Coffee first appeared in Canadian cups about two hundred years ago, some three hundred years after people in Africa and the Middle East were regularly consuming the beverage. The most popular...
Should you let your genes decide what you eat? The field of nutrigenomics certainly leans in that direction. Frustratingly, there are two sides to nutrigenomics. On the one hand, it is a research...
For many students, picking up a coffee from the dining hall before pulling a late nighter at the library is all too familiar. I will admit, I鈥檓 an energy drink fiend. My friends have commented on...
Flatulence has been immortalized in this children鈥檚 song: 鈥淏eans, beans, the musical fruit / The more you eat, the more you toot.鈥� The same can be said of milk for those of us with lactose...
A certain amount of the muddy colour can be attributed to the different colours of food we eat. Like mixing all the paint colours together, the result is a dull brown. But, much bigger factors for...
There are many things in life to worry about but cyanide in vitamin B12 supplements is not one of them. Why do I bring this up? Because of a video that has been circulating about 鈥渢he toxic...
鈥淐razy bug!鈥� That鈥檚 what the Spanish "cucaracha" means. Why crazy? Because when these darkness-loving bugs are surprised by a light being turned on, they scamper away in a wild, crazy, zig-zag...
The word 鈥渂arbecue鈥� derives from the ancient Caribbean tradition of supporting food over a fire with a scaffolding made from green wood which in Spanish was called "barbacoa." The technique itself...
Breakfast of champions. This phrase might make you think of a hearty, greasy bacon platter. Or even a martini if you鈥檝e read the Kurt Vonnegut book with the same title. But it was first coined by...
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