When a product says it is “natural” it just means that the ingredients come from something naturally created like a plant or an animal.If a product weren’t “natural” it could contain artificial ingredients like Red Dye #40 that’s chemically created or “invented” by food scientists in...
Spartan citizens were allowed to possess little money, and Spartan men were expected, officially, to eat all their meals at a common mess, where the food was legendarily bad -- all to toughen them up. Spartans had so little to say that the term "Laconic," from Λακωνία, ...
Third trimester:Green stool may occur more frequently as your due date approaches. This is because food often moves through the intestines faster in late pregnancy. Postpartum:Green poop in the weeks after pregnancy is usually related to diarrhea. Reintroducing caffeine, artificial sweeteners, or dai...
Thanks to visionary CEO Phil Knight, the company sold running shoes before running as a sport was socially acceptable. It then partnered with sports stars like Michael Jordan which created a resale market worth billions and keeps the Nikebrandtop-of-mind for fanatics. ...
Since I found my way to regain my health was to avoid simple carbs and processed food. All that food did was convert itself into sugar devoid of any other nutrient. It gave my body nutrition but only one kind that being sugar. I missed out on all the other badly needed antioxidants. ...
1939: Government launches food stamp program In an effort to help low-income families afford food, the federal government launched a food stamp program in 1939. It was in effect for four years, after which the country switched over to ration stamps. 1940: Government formalizes definition for en...
Industrial farming is killing the planet For most of history, making garments was a long, expensive process that was intimately tied to farming, which grew the fibers for cloth. But over the last hundred years, industrial farming has changed the game. Today, farmers around the world use...
Both versions of Doritos are horrible, but American Doritos are covered in artificial dyes made from petroleum (Red #40, Blue #1, and Yellow #5). These dyes have been found to be contaminated with carcinogens, such as benzidine (2) In the U.K., these dyes require a warning label that...
I added artificial food colors to me daughter’s list of sensitive foods. I used to get sugar free popsicles to avoid corn syrup, (even some of the fruit bars have it – you have to get “no sugar added”), until I found that the food color was giving her almost as bad a reaction...
"Nobody ever really understood how hot it was." So, Earth's atmosphere is life — and without it, life as we know it wouldn't exist. "Earth needed the right atmosphere [for life] to get started," Frey said. "It has created that atmosphere, and it has created circumstances to live...