Glyphosate, a component of the popular herbicide commonly known as Roundup in the United States, has been placed on California's Proposition 65 list, which requires a cancer warning label on it, despite the fact no regulatory body can find evidence it harms anyone or anything other than what it is supposed to harm, much less that it causes any cancer.read...
read moreMichael Pollan, food activist and journalist, is the proverbial man trapped in the past in his latest piece for the New York Times, criticizing the Obama administration for not catering to his bizarre beliefs about how food production actually works, and along the way taking the opportunity to smear...me. read...
read moreA new survey finds that how 40 percent of people function is a scientific mystery - because only 60 percent of people start their mornings with coffee.This is baffling in a country where $18 billion annually is spent just on specialty coffees. read...
read moreSoft drinks are loaded with sugar because they need to be sweet. But why is sweetness the fundamental consideration? Some candies are sour and people love them. When did we become so polarized about sweet and salty? Some of it is just culture and so it would take time to adjust. A friend of mine moved to the U.S. from Korea and an early comment was, 'There is so much cheese' but Americans don't...
read moreI am writing a book on mitochondria and after a few months of research you begin to see a common thread - serendipity. Sometimes big things happen because of what seems to be luck, a group of people all happen to be in one place at one time, they are all spurred on by each other and then dramatic things occur. read...
read moreThe Paleo diet is all made up, organic food just accepts one kind of genetic modification in its modern food over another, but booze? Yeah, scientists can really show how that was different in the past. read...
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