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Is Organic Food Really That Much Better For You? -Or Could It Actually Be Worse? [Video]

Filed Under: Disease, Nutrition, Video

Is Organic Food Really That Much Better For You? -Or Could It Actually Be Worse? [Video]


Is The Organic Premise Right In The First Place?:
So, lots of people believe in food that’s decomplicated and grown in ways similar to those of 100 years ago as the path to good nutrition.

And recently, Organic seems to have taken that place at the grocery store for people who don’t hit up the farmers’ markets.

Many people even think that Organic means No Pesticides at-all and that it’s more natural, less dangerous to you and the environment, and ultimately healthier.

But is any of that true? -In this video, ASAPScience decides to find out…

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Video: Dr. Neal Barnard On The Power Of Food To Save Your Brain From Alzheimer’s & Dementia

Filed Under: Aging, Better Living Through Chemistry, Mind/Brain, Video

Video: Dr. Neal Barnard On The Power Of Food To Save Your Brain From Alzheimer’s & Dementia


Science Was Wrong Again!:
We just learned that Science was wrong about adults not being able to grow new brain-cells.

In this video, Dr. Neal Barnard shares Dietary-changes that can actually improve your brain,

And most importantly help avoid Alzheimer’s, the disease that killed his father.

Having watched that whole process, he ranks it as one of the last things you’d ever want to happen.

So, here’s his list of 5 research-backed tools that may make a surprising difference…

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Like Napoleon At The Battle Of Austerlitz, KFC Revolutionizes Fast-Food With Clean-Food Superstar, Figgy Poppleton-Rice

Filed Under: Nutrition, Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Like Napoleon At The Battle Of Austerlitz, KFC Revolutionizes Fast-Food With Clean-Food Superstar, Figgy Poppleton-Rice
KFC clean eating burger by figgy poppleton-rice


A Star Is Born:
Sometimes the internet does fantastic things to create interesting combinations and hacks.

A lot of these odd connections come together via social media’s ability to broadcast the exceptional.

However, few companies are willing to risk big losses by backing an outsider.

But just like Mahatma Gandhi or Steve Jobs before them, KFC has the guts to “Think Different” with their newest superstar, and the results are spectacular…

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Video: The Facts Crew Tries Meat Subsitutes, Saves Planet Earth From Death By Cow-Farts

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Nutrition, Video

Video: The Facts Crew Tries Meat Subsitutes, Saves Planet Earth From Death By Cow-Farts


Saving The Planet 1 Video At A Time. Maybe:
So, an increasting percentage of our dietary choices are made for health reasons.

And in a few new edge-cases, also for the chance to help more than just yourself, by reducing the environmental impacts of some farming.

This is the angle taken most recently by Impossible Foods.

But who cares about that? As-usual, the Facts crew is here to give you a fairly-normal [Irish] person’s perspective and tell you how it really is!…

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Vegetarians & Moms Win Again! Green Vegetable Compounds May Stop Time Or Even Reverse It

Filed Under: Aging, Better Living Through Chemistry, Nutrition, Vitamins/Supplements

Vegetarians & Moms Win Again! Green Vegetable Compounds May Stop Time Or Even Reverse It
external electricity meter in red and orange


Another Win For Veggie Fans!:
So in the eternal war of Vegetarians vs. Carnivores, !SCIENCE! has to concede one new point.

As time goes by our bodies seem to get worse, mostly due to unfair biochemical changes like reduced metabolism, lean mass, and just plain old energy.

Well, researchers are coming again to the rescue, with what looks like another cure to several of them.

And it all hinges on that nagging your good ole’ mum leveled at the dinnertime kids: Eat Your Greens!…

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Now We Know Why Vegetarians Sound So Dumb & Dizzy. It’s Because Creatine Boosts All Different Kinds Of Brain POWAH!

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Mind/Brain, Nutrition, Vitamins/Supplements

Now We Know Why Vegetarians Sound So Dumb & Dizzy. It’s Because Creatine Boosts All Different Kinds Of Brain POWAH!
bbc sherlock season 3 the empty hearse sherlock in tunnel with flashlight


Not All Substitutes Are Equal:
All cheekiness aside, we just did a post on the sexy people over at Eater’s test of the newest vegetable-only burger, by Impossible Foods.

But one of the ideas we raised at the end was: Maybe it tastes close now, maybe even identical in the future,

-But does it give you the same-or-better Nutrition when you take everything into consideration?

Well, one of Red Meat’s components is a salt called Creatine. And sciency-researchers are finding out some very interesting brain-stuff about its new best friend…

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Video: Eater Tries The Impossible Burger, Here To Save Planet Earth And One Day, Your Taste Buds

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Bio-Tech, Nutrition, Video

Video: Eater Tries The Impossible Burger, Here To Save Planet Earth And One Day, Your Taste Buds


Can Food Save Planet Earth?:
In this video, Eater’s Kat Odell and Nick Solares introduce us to another salvo in the war to make a better burger with its inventor, Dr. Pat Brown.

This particular version has taken over 5 years to research and launch.

And thanks to some increasingly-fancy food chemistry, Impossible Foods might be getting us a step closer to a more earth-friendly, healthier future.

And while people should have the luxury to eat what they want, and a burger won’t save the planet, every little bit helps…

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Healthy French Fries?!?? Nope. BUT! Less Un-Healthy If You Cook Them This Way. -And Maybe That’s Enough Of An Excuse…

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Disease, Nutrition, Weight Loss / Fat Loss

Healthy French Fries?!?? Nope. BUT! Less Un-Healthy If You Cook Them This Way. -And Maybe That’s Enough Of An Excuse…
golden french fries standing up in white porcelain ramekin on white marble tabletop


An Old Spectre Returns, Bearing Unexpected Gifts:
So forever you’ve been told that Steaming is the healthiest way to go for vegetables.

-And that anything other than the pyrotechnic-majesty of outdoor-grilling was nutritional-suicide. Maybe oven-roasting was a close second.

And so far, we’ve thought the experts were right.

Well some new experts have chimed in on an old bogeyman-cooking-method, and there is some light [if-qualified] at the end of the tunnel for that old health-nemesis: Deep Fat Frying…

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