Is science communication about nutrition a mission impossible? (The Food Diaries, part two)
How do we provide useful nutrition advice to people? Is science conclusive and how to communicate this without oversimplifying?
Category: Food
Obesity and diabetes – things you need to know (The Food Diaries, part one)
It is diabetes awareness month and I figured, I'll challenge myself to draw together some hopefully useful information on metabolic diseases (and food in general) in a series called The Food Diaries. Only science, no fads!
Do or don’t: why taking pre- and probiotics deserves thinking twice?
Many bacteria live in our bodies in a peaceful and even beneficial manner. But is there any truth to trying to add extra of the good guys in a pill form? Here's some of the science on this...
Tea vs coffee – an age old dispute not based in science
Why some of us prefer coffee and others feel their hearts exploding after the smallest cup? How does caffeine and theine affect our body differently?
To milk or not to milk – does adding milk to your coffee decreases the kick you get?
What does coffee do to you? And does adding milk to your cup changes that?
Nanotechnology – a silver bullet against food and packaging waste?
Now that we made food and packaging waste become such a major public heath and environmental problem, lets see what we can do to solve it.