Tag: Food

If you’ve ever been to Sheetz, you know you’re in for a treat when you walk through the doors. It’s a convenience store paradise. And while we love grabbing piping-hot mozzarella sticks and frozen lemonade on the occasional late-night run, we also reach for healthier options on a regular basis. What healthy options, you ask?

Everyday products carry environmental chemicals that may be making us fat by interfering with our hormones, according to research presented in Barcelona at the European Society of Endocrinology annual meeting, ECE 2018. Following recommendations on how to avoid these chemicals could help minimise exposure and potentially reduce the risk of obesity and its complications. Obesity

Add this to our long list of reasons we love Princess Diana so much: For Prince William’s 13th birthday, she gave him the birthday cake of many preteen boys’ dreams — one shaped like boobs. Correction: “a huge pair of naked boobs,” according to former royal chef Darren McGrady. According to InStyle, Princess Di was

Growing levels of resistance to antifungal treatments could lead to increased disease outbreaks and affect food security around the world. An international team, led by researchers from Imperial College London and the University of Exeter, warns that improvements are needed in how existing drugs are used, as well as an increased focus on the discovery

Depending on who you ask, Froot Loops have either always had multiple flavors to match their multiple colors… or it’s all the same flavor and just a trick of the tongue. Either way, they were always good for turning your milk into a fun rainbow, and now the cereal brand has announced a new wild

Once upon a time, a Denver couple met at a Chipotle. They hit it off, enjoyed a burrito, maybe a bowl. They likely exchanged stories about their experiences working at Chipotle. Soon enough, their relationship took them from food babies to having three real babies. But baby No. 4? They didn’t know it then, but

It’s finally warming up outside, folks. The sweaters are coming off, the shorts are going on, and we even had to restock our sunscreen supply. More hot, wonderful sunshine also means winter is finally over, and it’s the best time to indulge in delicious frozen summer treats. Top of the list is a Frosty from

A recent study by sensory researchers at Kansas State University’s Olathe campus finds that emojis are a viable alternative to words when it comes to accurately measuring how kids feel about food, products and other experiences. The results appear in the study, “The emoji scale: A facial scale for the 21st century,” which was published

An unidentified person in California is the first fatality connected to this year’s outbreak. The 2018 E Coli outbreak connected to tainted romaine lettuce has claimed its first death: a California resident. As the Washington Post reports, no further information about the person – their sex or age, for example – has been provided as

Around 40% of us suffer from indigestion after eating, whether it’s a bloated, painful stomach, wind or acid heartburn. “Heartburn is caused when acid from your stomach leaks up into the oesophagus and causes a burning or stinging sensation in your throat and chest,” says Dr Dan Robertson, Medical Officer at Push Doctor (pushdoctor.co.uk). “The

A sepsis awareness and management programme has demonstrated overall success in terms of improved sepsis detection, but has led to an increase in the number of E. coli blood stream infection cases presented, calling into question the targets used by Health Boards and set by the Welsh Government. Sepsis is a serious complication of an

An international team of scientists including the University of Adelaide has discovered a new complex carbohydrate in moss that could possibly be exploited for health or other uses. The scientists, from Australia’s ARC Centre of Excellence in Plant Cell Walls and University of Rhode Island, in the US, say the polysaccharide looks a bit like

Evidence suggests that developing cooking and food preparation skills is important for health and nutrition, yet the practice of home cooking is declining and now rarely taught in school. A new study published in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior found that developing cooking skills as a young adult may have long-term benefits for

Chlorine, commonly used in the agriculture industry to decontaminate fresh produce, can make foodborne pathogens undetectable, according to new research published in mBio, an open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology. The study may help explain outbreaks of Salmonella enterica and Listeria monocytogenes among produce in recent years. “This important work is a major

People who grow up with a greater variety of pets are significantly more likely to follow a vegetarian diet as adults, according to research by a professor-student team in the University at Albany psychology department. Sydney Heiss, graduate student in the department of psychology, worked with assistant professor Julia Hormes to gain a better understanding

New research has found that schools in poorer areas could be doing more to entice young people to eat at school, by making the eating areas more attractive places to socialise and treating pupils more like customers at lunchtime. The recent study was conducted by researchers at the University of Hertfordshire and has been published

The longevity and health improvements seen in animals on sulfur amino acid-restricted diets could translate to people, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers who recently conducted a review of published studies. More research is needed to confirm the benefits in people, the scientists said. Amino acids are the building blocks of all proteins