Emperor Napoleon III offered a prize to anyone who could find "a suitable substance to replace butter for the navy and less prosperous classes." The French chemist Hippolyte Mege-Mouries had...
A very good question to tackle because many people do not have a good understanding of calories. First of all, a calorie is not a thing and therefore cannot be full or empty. You cannot put...
I’m told I’m full of ….ummm “crap.” And so are most of you. Literally. So say the promoters of various colon cleansers. Actually, they’re not quite so crass, they prefer to use gentler terms like,...