Nutrition

Gluten can be a benefit or harmful to the body, depending on the individual.  Negative media attention on wheat and gluten has cast some doubt on its place in a heathy diet.  Public perception is that a gluten-free diet is more healthful and may improve gastrointestinal symptoms, as some people

Once eaten and digested, dietary protein is broken down into individual amino acids, which are then absorbed into the blood stream and transported around the body.  Amino acids are small molecules that combine to make the various proteins that the cells in the body need.   Twenty different naturally occurring amino

Excess body fat elevates the risk for a number of health issues, such as insulin resistance, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.  Obesity has been linked to several cancers, including esophageal, kidney, pancreatic, post-menopausal breast cancer, colorectal, and uterine cancers.  Weight loss interventions largely focus on reducing dietary energy intake and increasing

The earliest evidence of dairy milk consumption by humans’ dates back almost 9 000 years to modern-day Turkey, near the sea of Marmara, where Richard Evershed, a biogeochemist and his team from the University of Bristol, UK, found milk-fat residues on ancient potsherds, which dates from the dawn of animal

Zinc has been known for its medicinal qualities over the ages, as ancient Greek medical texts mentioned that zinc oxide was used in ointments to heal wounds.  Zinc oxide is still today a common over-the-counter skin treatment.  Historically, it was reported in 1869 that zinc was essential for the growth

“Life is like an onion.  You peel it off one layer at a time.  And sometimes you weep.” This piece of wisdom comes from the American poet Carl Sandburg.  There is however much more to an onion than having layers and bringing tears to your eyes.  Apart from adding abundant

The idea of showing food groups in the form of a pyramid paints a clear picture – eat more of the foods listed at the widest part at the bottom of the pyramid and eat less of the foods listed at the narrow top apex. The food pyramid is a

Flavor of the month diets seems to come and go, with social media trending specific foods to eat, or avoid altogether.  Lately claims have been doing the rounds that vegetables in the nightshade family, such as tomatoes, eggplant, peppers, and potatoes, are bad for you and should be avoided.  From

Trending diets seem to come and go, with the latest fad diet becoming flavour of the month.  One of these trending diets is the carnivore diet, also known as the all-meat diet. True to its name, the carnivore diet implies that you only eat meat and other animal products for