Selma Hayek was in a 2012 celebrity milk ad, pouring a glass of milk for her daughter. A glass of milk contains the relaxing amino acid tryptophan. Photo: Milk Processing Education Program The Foods You Eat (or Drink) Impact Your Moods From breakfast until bedtime, your daily diet delivers a pharmacy full of foods whose natural chemicals influence your mood... News 29 Apr 2024 | 12:46
It’s all in the shorthand. Just as a baseball player would used RBI instead of “run batted in” after a hit enabled a runner on his team to cross home plate, nutritionists also have a language all their own. Photo: Wikimedia Commons How to Make a Nutritionist’s Word Salad a Little More Digestible Every profession has its own verbal shorthand. Cops abbreviate unknown suspects to “perps” short for “perpetrators.” Sportswriters... News 19 Apr 2024 | 01:15
There is a free government web site, nutrition.gov, that will let you track news on healthy eating based on age, gender, and how active your lifestyle is. Photo: clker.com How Healthy is Your Diet? Nutrition.gov Lets You Track It Yourself Are you are doing your best to follow a healthful diet but feeling buried under a growing mass of nutrition facts and fables?... News 29 Mar 2024 | 11:30
Nathan’s may be the most famous maker thanks in part to its annual Fourth of July hot dog eating contest, but the history of the frankfurter actually traces back centuries earlier. Photo: Steven Lek Wikimedia Commons ( STEVENLEK) The Frankfurter: Older Than Nathan’s Coney Island Hot Dog Stand The hot dog is food history in a bun. Its ancestry tracks all the way back to the 13th century in Germany when pork sausages... News 04 Aug 2023 | 12:24
