The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), headquartered in Atlanta, is often in the news because of its mandate to protect the health of the public. These days it is almost impossible...
A couple of years ago we carried out a simple experiment. We put a bowl of mini doughnuts and a bowl of apples in front of my office with a sign 鈥渇ree to take.鈥� I鈥檒l let you guess which disappeared...
When the Liver King fell from grace, the leaked list of the drugs he was on raised many eyebrows. The Liver King, n茅 Brian Johnson, is a buff social media influencer who pressed his followers to...
The state of California is planning to ban brominated vegetable oil (BVO), potassium bromate, propylparaben and Red Dye No. 3 from use in foods by 2027. BVO prevents citrus oils from separating in...
If you are Canadian, you may have seen the letters 鈥淣PN鈥� followed by a series of numbers on the packaging of a health product you picked up at the pharmacy, things like vitamin supplements,...
Serendipitous discoveries are legendary in science. Fleming鈥檚 discovery of penicillin, Perkin鈥檚 of mauve, Silver鈥檚 of post-it notes, Roentgen鈥檚 of x-rays, Fahlberg鈥檚 of saccharin, Plunkett鈥檚 of...
The fact that the sauce was packaged in a box shaped like a coffin should have been a clue. On a trip to New Orleans I walked into one of the many shops that sell an array of hot sauces and are set...
Is this product a scam? I often get emails that start off with that query. The reference is usually to some dietary supplement the questioner encountered on the Internet that promises to...
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