For all of its wild popularity, caffeine is one seriously misunderstood substance. It’s not a simple upper, and it works differently on different people with different tolerances—even in different menstrual cycles. But you can make it work better for you.
Read more here: What Caffeine Actually Does to Your Brain
It’s a fermented, pungent tea, but it’s the alcohol that can lurk inside of kombucha that’s causing a stink.
Regulators and retailers are concerned that the ancient and trendy tea may need to be regulated as an alcoholic drink. That’s because some bottles have more than 0.5 percent alcohol — the legal limit for a drink not to be considered alcoholic.
The drink dates back thousands of years and across cultures, though its actual country of origin is unclear. But it has gained popularity in the past few years in the U.S., partly because of claimed health benefits, though there’s little science behind them. And it doesn’t hurt when stars like Lindsay Lohan are photographed drinking kombucha.
Read more here: Fermented tea kombucha vanishes on alcohol worries
Green is good. It’s what everybody seems to want. We want green living, green homes, green office buildings, green cars, green urban spaces, green rolling hills and more than enough greenbacks to cover it all. But there is one aspect of green living in which ‘green’ is not the best, and it defies one of our most well-known platitudes, the grass is always greener…
Read more here: Creating an Eco-Friendly Yard
Contaminated salsa and guacamole dips are common causes of food poisoning in restaurants, and food workers need to take greater care, researchers told a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention meeting on Monday.
They said nearly one of every 25 traceable outbreaks of foodborne disease between 1998 and 2008 began with one of the increasingly popular dips, which are made using onions, tomatoes, peppers, avocados, herbs and other ingredients.
Read more here: Salsa, guacamole dips tied to food poisoning: CDC
It’s no secret that eating nuts is good for you. Researchers have been proving their cancer-fighting, brain-enhancing, weight-reducing and cholesterol-lowering capacity for years. As long as you avoid eating them with salt and enjoy them in moderation (about a quarter cup a day) as part of a healthy diet, they could also help reduce your risk for coronary heart disease. Nuts can help keep you satiated and cut down on sweet cravings, too, but are some nuts better than others? We talked to two experts: naturopathic doctor Via Bitidis of the North Toronto Naturopathic Clinic in Toronto and community health nutritionist Carol Schnittjer of Dauphin, Manitoba to find out which nuts you should be eating and why.
Read more here: Go nuts!
