Food & Nutrition

“Are GMOs making you sick?” That's the question posed by the Institute for Responsible Technology (IRT) in an alarming April 2

Just six years ago, America was engaged in a ferocious debate over GMO food labels; March Against Monsanto could

      “Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food.” - Hippocrates  

Introduced in the 1990s, crops genetically engineered (GE) to withstand exposure to the weed killer glyphosate (Roundup) were a game-changer for agriculture.

In March, anti-GMO groups across the US launched a last-ditch effort to halt the commercialization of AquaBounty's transgenic AquAdvantage salmon.

The microbiome

“If you are obsessed with sugar-sweetened drinks, then you need to think twice before having them regularly,”

There is a lot of food wasted in the US.

Russell Brand is a genius comedian. I'm especially fond of his character in the film “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” a self-absorbed rock star named Aldous Snow who writes cliche ballads about saving the planet.

A new study in the British Medical Journal seeks to decipher the effect of long-term dietary patterns on the microbiome and their subsequent effects on us.