Food & Nutrition

When your dog looks longingly at you as you eat breakfast, out of compassion and sympathy, do you ever find yourself pouring some orange juice into his bowl? Of course not. You might get bitten. Or, at the very least, you'll get a puzzled look.

The internet can be a confusing place. A five-minute Google search for nutrition advice is perhaps the best illustration of this fact. Allow me to demonstrate with a classic example. Do GMO crops cause cancer?

Ever heard of activated nuts? Nope, we’re not talking about brazils in tiny training shoes or placard-wielding pecans.

The studies of GHG created from fishing have focused primarily on fuel usage by ships while fishing, resulting in a “focus on a narrow group of pollutants (e.g., well-mixed GHGs including CO2, CH4, and N2O)…”.

Nutritional studies are notoriously fraught with problems — rigorous randomized controlled trials are almost impossible to carry out in a way that will accurately answer dietary questions, people misremember or lie about what they eat in dietary s

Gene editing, using a CRISPR approach to alter single-nucleotide pairs and genetic modification, where entire genetic alterations are incorporated into a plant’s DNA through the use of bacterial “messengers,” have allowed farmers and scientists to

By Benjamin Plackett, Contributor to Inside Science

Our friend, the telomere

I wrote an article several months ago about a controversial study suggesting that red meat wasn’t all that bad. You can find it here.

Bone broth is promoted as a “super-soup”, rich in collagen and minerals. But in reality, this eye-watering expensive broth is a poor source of nutrition and can’t boost your skin or help your joints as claimed.