I remember seeing a pain medication commercial on TV many years ago. A woman was in the laundry room folding sheets, in considerable pain. Her friend, the laundry spectator, told her about an amazing pain medication she used. Fast forward a few days and drugged-up Mabel
Back in December 2013, I wrote an article titled, “Things that make you go hmmm”. The last hmmm was: “A small BC company called Okanagan Specialty Fruits [OSF] has developed a genetically modified apple that will not turn brown when it is cut.” Fast forward
Today, a common farming practice is called ‘Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations’, or CAFO. As the name implies, it involves a dense population of farm animals — think chicken, turkeys, cattle, or pigs — crammed into a sheltered facility and raised for market. The goal of CAFO? Getting
I hadn’t heard of George Mateljan until about a month ago. George is a renowned expert on healthy foods, cooking, and lifestyle. The book, The World’s Healthiest Foods, is a colossus — 880 pages thick! As the sub-title says, it is really an ‘essential guide for
History is a great teacher. One lesson learned over the centuries is the benefit to incorporating green tea into your diet. Thought to have originated in China, green tea is made from the leaves of the Camellia sinensis, a white-flowered evergreen. Green tea has been
