nutrition
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3 Ways That Big Brother Is Secretly Stuffing You With Vitamins
We might not always realise it, but a lot of the stuff we’re putting into our mouths has been meticulously engineered by Big Brother to turn us into robust, super-human specimens. Sure, it kind of sounds like the plot of a corny sci-fi flick — but we’d be nothing more than rickets-stricken piles of rotting…
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Soylent Shakes Contain Everything You Need To Stay Alive
If you’re monumentally bored with food, and willing to take on some rather high stakes nutritional poker, it’s possible to keep yourself alive with a simple shake that its inventor rather wryly calls “Soylent”.
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How Much Weight You Gained From Your Christmas Dinner
Postprandial weight gain is all a matter of timing. In the short term-I mean the very short term-any food and drink that you put into your body will make you exactly that much heavier. Eat a couple of kilos of marshmallows, and you’ll have added a couple of kilos to your mass, at least until…
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Scientific Proof That Popcorn Is Healthier Than Fruit And Vegetables
Next time you’re stuffing your face with popcorn, don’t feel guilty; a new scientific study shows that, far from being junk food, popcorn packs a better nutritional punch than fruit or vegetables. Kind of.