Aspartame’s Safe, Or So Coke Claims in New Ads By : Vicky Tobianah As sales of diet drinks sharply decline, Coca-Cola is launching new ads today defending the safety of artificial sweeteners, claiming that…
Why Your Unhealthy Habits Spread Faster Than the Flu By : Vicky Tobianah If you think it’s no big deal if your best friend can finish two bags of chips in one sitting, think…
We Harm Others When We Harm Ourselves: The Soda Ban Didn’t Go Far Enough By : Vicky Tobianah If you asked the average person you meet, they’d probably say that a government law requiring car drivers and passengers to…
Why the Media Got the Fish Oil Supplements and Cancer Risk Wrong By : Jon Yaneff If you’re an avid health reader, you’ve probably read about the many benefits of fish oil on human health. Quite frequently,…
Why the Glycemic Index is Misleading By : Vicky Tobianah We’ve often been told to choose what we eat based on its rating on the glycemic index, the scale that ranks…
Why You Might Get a Side of Contamination Along With Your Local Chicken By : Vicky Tobianah While many health enthusiasts claim that eating local is healthiest, the studies don’t always seem to back that up. Although eating…
Why We’re Obsessed With Foods That Cause Cancer By : Vicky Tobianah We’ve become afraid—of everything in our kitchen, of everything we find in the grocery stores, of our doctors, our healthcare providers,…
Playing With Our Food: Has the Perfect Broccoli Gone Too Far? By : Vicky Tobianah If you don’t get enough fruits and vegetables, maybe changing up your traditional veggies will make them more appealing. That’s what…
Arsenic in Your Apple Juice? By : Vicky Tobianah Arsenic is a tasteless and odorless chemical that’s been called a cancer-causing agent, according to government health organizations. Long-term exposure to…
The 7 Killer Food Additives You Should Never Eat By : Shirley Plant Approximately 80% of the foods we consume today are refined and chemically altered. Food additives are not natural flavouring, spices, or…