How Food Affects Mood Good morning! Time to wake up, roll out of bed, and sleepwalk into the kitchen for a cup of coffee. Good afternoon! Time for a moderate gla...
Food and Mood Draw the curtains. Turn down the lights. Come a little closer. We’re going to talk about something nutritionists never seem to write about:...
Food Hypersensitivity According to the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN) , at least 11.4 million Americans have true food allergies (also known as f...
The Nature of Food Additives What are food additives? Here’s a really simple definition: Food additives are substances added to food. The list of common food additives ...
Chilling and Freezing Food Cold air, hot air, no air, and radioactive rays — all can be used to make food safer for longer periods of time by reducing or eliminating ...
What’s Cooking? You can bet that the first cooked dinner was an accident involving some poor wandering animal and a bolt of lightning that — zap! — charred...
Five Methods of Food Processing Say “processed food,” and most people think “cheese spread.” They’re right, of course. Cheese spread is, in fact, a processed food. But so ...
Interpreting a Restaurant Menu Eating out is in. You don’t have to cook, and somebody else washes the dishes. The challenge is to avoid letting luxury lull you into cedin...