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This is article is a good read.   I’d like to read more from the writer, Nadia Berensteien who is currently working on a book, recounting the history of flavor science and the flavor industry in the United States beginning in the mid-nineteenth century....

This article raises so many questions about the future of food – here are some excerpts that struck me, read the full article here  How should food be made to taste? This question has vexed manufacturers since the earliest days of factory-made foods, when...

Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t use Facebook like you or me. The 33-year-old chief executive has a team of 12 moderators dedicated to deleting comments and spam from his page, according to Bloomberg. He has a “handful” of employees who help him write his posts and...

The addiction recovery experience has been sliced and diced in all manner of categories: secular, spiritual, and religious; natural recovery, peer-assisted, and treatment-assisted; and abstinence-based, moderation-based, and medication-assisted, to name just a...

The Center for Internet and Technology Addiction offers us this test so we can gauge the level of our smartphone compulsion.  It only takes a few minutes to answer the questions.  I scored 7 out of 15 so my diagnosis is … It is likely that you may...

he rich golden and orange colors of carrots, winter squash and mango speak of beta-carotene. Green foods offer beta carotenes and lycopene, as do red foods like tomatoes. The deep red of beets and prickly pear fruits offer unique betaine antoxidants, while crimson in...

What might surprise you is how easy it is to be diagnosed with an AUD. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), if you answer yes to two out of the 11 following questions, you would be diagnosed with an Alcohol Use Disorder....

The insurance provider is replacing Oxycontin with Xtampza and Morphabond, whose formulas make them more difficult to crush and delay the high. Although the replacement drugs cost more, BCBS will keep member co-pays the same as they were for Oxycontin. BCBS is also...