(Uma Naidoo) In my work as a nutritional psychiatrist, I support people with a variety of neurological and psychiatric concerns, ranging from pervasive conditions like depression and anxiety to day-to-day issues such as poor sleep, difficulty focusing, and, you guessed it — brain fog. While brain fog can be a symptom of many different diseases and syndromes, it can also be a result of foods in our diet that affect our blood sugar levels, oxygen supply to the brain, or inflammation anywhere along the process of thought and mood formation.
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How Air Pollution Could be Harming Your Brain
(Kasra Zarei) When it comes to the health impacts of air pollution, most people think of lung and heart issues. However, a growing body of research suggests our brains could be at risk as well.
What Is a Food Co-op?
(Ocean Robbins) The eight-hour workday. Job security. Education and opportunity for advancement for workers. Pensions. Jobsite safety.
Prunes & Plums: Are They Good for You?
(Ocean Robbins) Sometime in the late 18th century, in an English home on Christmas Eve, a small boy has left the dinner table, taking the dessert with him. Instead of a fork or spoon, he sticks his hand into the dish, extracts the best part, and pops it into his mouth. His family would be well within their rights, I think, to chastise the lad for his ill manners. But before they can do so, he preemptively praises himself, “What a good boy am I!”
What Is Your Poop Telling You? A Guide to Healthy Bowel Habits
(Ocean Robbins) “Why are these people pooping so much?”
Artichokes: Nutrition, Benefits, & How to Cook and Eat Them
(Ocean Robbins) On December 21, 1931, New York City mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, in an attempt to break the mafia’s stranglehold on the industry, made it a crime to sell, display, or possess baby artichokes. Marilyn Monroe, an unknown actress at the time, was crowned California’s “Artichoke Queen” in 1948. The 17th-century Italian painter Caravaggio pulled his sword on a waiter who refused to tell him if the artichokes on his plate had been cooked in oil or butter. In the 16th century, Catherine de Medici scandalized the court of her husband, the French king Henry II, by eating artichokes, since they were considered powerful aphrodisiacs and were forbidden to women.
Plant-Based Hiking Food Ideas: What to Eat Before, During, & After a Hike
(Ocean Robbins) You can’t stop an idea whose time has come. In the 17th century, Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz invented calculus roughly simultaneously, even though neither was aware of the other’s work. Carl Wilhelm Scheele, Joseph Priestley (not to be confused with Jason Priestley), Antoine Lavoisier, and others independently discovered oxygen in the 18th century. And in the 1800s, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace both came up with the theory of evolution and didn’t know of each other until both had published.
Are Phytoestrogens in Food Bad for You?
(Ocean Robbins) The 1986 film Little Shop of Horrors starred Audrey II, a Venus flytrap that feasted on human flesh and incited a flower shop clerk to murder two people to satisfy its ravenous appetite.
Edible Flowers: How to Find & Use Them in Recipes
(Ocean Robbins) Can we agree that many flowers are visually beautiful? We grow them in gardens, give and receive them as gifts (and as promises and apologies), and use them to brighten up our rooms. Many flowers also have heavenly scents that attract us nearly as intensely as the pollinators they’re meant for. (From this category I exclude Amorphophallus titanum, or the “corpse flower,” whose odor has been charitably described as “teenage gym socks.”) But flowers are more than just eye candy and lovely aromas — they also have a culinary tradition dating back to at least 140 BCE.
Afternoon Tea: Recipes for a Plant-Based Tea Party
(Ocean Robbins) According to legend, the 18th-century British peer John Montagu (the 4th Earl of Sandwich) was such a committed gambler that he could not tear himself away from the betting table long enough to enjoy a proper meal. He instructed his servants to just stick meat between two pieces of bread so that he could eat using one hand and continue playing games of chance with the other. His invention, the sandwich (lucky for us, it didn’t end up with the name “the montagu,” or worse, perhaps, “the john”), changed the way we eat our midday meals.
What Is Sesame? Explore the Benefits & Uses of Sesame Seeds and Tahini
(Ocean Robbins) Comedian Mitch Hedberg wondered about sesame seeds a lot. Primarily, he was concerned about how they stick to hamburger buns. Do they have adhesive backing on just one side? And who has the time to peel and stick all those tiny seeds to the buns?
Waste Not? Some States are Starting to Send Less Food to Landfills
(Elaine Povich) Prominent Northeastern grocery store chain Hannaford Supermarkets made headlines recently by declaring that for an entire year it had not sent any spoiled or outdated food to landfills, where the organic decomposition process produces methane, one of the most potent greenhouse gases.
How to Take Care of Your Kidneys — and the Best & Worst Foods for Chronic Kidney Disease
(Ocean Robbins) When my dad was growing up as the presumed heir to the Baskin-Robbins company (before he left all the ice cream and all the wealth to follow his own “rocky road”), he had an ice cream cone-shaped swimming pool in his backyard. Surrounded by shade trees, the pool was an inviting and cool oasis during the hot California summers.
Monocropping: A Disastrous Agricultural System
(Ocean Robbins) I’ll begin with a simple definition: monocropping is planting and growing one type of plant in the same place, year after year. It’s the type of planting that occurs under a type of agriculture called monoculture. If you’ve ever driven through large agricultural fields completely filled with — say, corn — as far as the eye can see, you’re in monoculture country. Monoculture is an agricultural system that involves the planting of a single crop, over and over.
Healthy Green Bean Recipes to Enjoy All Year Round
(Ocean Robbins) In the summer of 1954, wealthy citrus magnate, John A. Snively, Jr and his wife May (these were their real names, not inventions of some hack Hollywood screenwriter), entertained the Shah and Queen of Iran with a sumptuous backyard barbecue.