What do we call foods composed mostly of sugar and saturated fats, with no real nutrients to speak of? Ultra Processed Foods (UPF) is an attempt at neutral naming, but Junkfood is actually a very fair description of these worthless or even harmful foodstuffs, with their potentially heavy impact on cardiovascular health. But this post […]

We all know someone who has lost weight, maybe a lot of weight, and who is succeeding in keeping it down – though maybe we don’t yet know who that person is. It may take a chance conversation or a random find on social media to discover what he or she looked like “before”. Saying […]

As promised, here is some news about Spirulina. Spirulina is a biomass of cyanobacteria (blue-green algae) which can be consumed by humans and animals, and which yields a food supplement much valued by athletes. Commercially, Spirulina is booming : in China, production took a 226% leap in 7 years, reaching 62’300 tons in 2010, according […]