Your “Gluten Intolerance” May Actually Be From Something Else in Wheat

Your "Gluten Intolerance" May Actually Be From Something Else in Wheat

Oh gluten, the least trendy protein of our time. As gluten-free has transcended science and exploded into diet fad, scientists increasingly suspect that gluten intolerance—apart from actual celiac disease—doesn’t exist at all. The true culprit could be a group of carbohydrates, including one in wheat called fructan.

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Is Gluten Actually Bad For You?

Is Gluten Actually Bad For You?

These days, just casually strolling down a grocery aisle, one can find a multitude of gluten-free products. From gluten-free whole grain bread to gluten-free beer to gluten-free Betty Crocker chocolate brownie mix, the market for food items without gluten has exploded over the past decade. But is gluten all that bad for you? Should a normal person avoid gluten in their diet ? What’s the deal with the gluten?

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Spam, Silkworms, Hydroponics: The Speculative Future of Food on Mars

Spam, Silkworms, Hydroponics: The Speculative Future of Food on Mars

Last year, NASA held a recipe contest for cooking on Mars. Ordinary civilians like us were invited to submit recipes based on a list of available ingredients—heavy on freeze-dried produce and various meat-flavored "textured vegetable proteins"—to be cooked and judged by crew members of HI-SEAS.

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The Science Behind Why Fat Tastes So Good

The Science Behind Why Fat Tastes So Good

It’s the end of January, and that means New Year’s resolutions swearing off chocolate and fries and all the other delicious fatty foods are just starting to bend. Who can blame you, really? Here’s a rundown on the science of fat, and why it’s so hard to resist.

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Our Best Fitness Articles of 2013

Our Best Fitness Articles of 2013

Listen to me now and believe me later, 2013 was no year to just sit around eating buffalo-wing-flavored-pretzels-flavored-biscuits. Or maybe it was. But it was also the year we got down to the nitty gritty of of health and fitness. From bionic knees to six-pack science, here are our favorite Fitmodos of 2013.

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Stink Yourself Slim Grosses You out So You’ll Lose Weight

It’s easy to gain weight, but it’s exponentially harder to lose it. As you probably already know by now, crash diets won’t work. What does work is cleaning up your diet and adding more exercise into your lifestyle.

Then, of course, there’s Stink Yourself Slim.

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I wouldn’t say it’s revolutionary, but I would say that it’s definitely unusual.

Stink Yourself Slim is basically a stink bomb in a bottle, but you’re not supposed to use it to prank others. Instead, you’re supposed to spritz some and smell it so you’ll lose your appetite. It’s logical: the less food you eat, the more weight you lose. It was created by Alex Fontaine and was inspired by a real-life event when a skunk crashed a buffet and ruined everyone’s appetite.

It’s being advertised as something that curbs emotional eating as it “works on brain areas that control motivation and behavior.” I’m not sure how stinking up the place affects a person’s motivation, but I will agree that it’ll make them want to eat less.

Stink Yourself Slim is available online for £29.99 (~$49 USD).

[via TAXI via FoodBeast via Incredible Things]

What Does 200 Calories Look Like?

The answer to the question of how much can you eat of different foods before you hit 200 calories varies, depending what you’re consuming. Two hundred calories is a whole lot of apples, but less than half of a Big Mac. It’s a plate full of broccoli, but more like a spoonful of peanut butter. But it’s a lot easier to understand what that really means when you actually see the food in front of you in this video from ASAP Science.

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Nutrino is a virtual nutritionist for iOS, we go hands-on

Nutrino is a virtual nutritionist for iOS, we go handson

As a recovering food addict, I’ve been told on numerous occasions that washboard abs are created in the kitchen, not in the gym. That’s why we were intrigued to take a look at Nutrino, an iOS app that promises a “virtual nutritionist” service to help slice away the adipose from our stomach. We spent some time putting the software through its paces, and if you’re thinking of making the leap, head on past the break to learn more.

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What 2000 Calories of Food Actually Looks Like

Inspired by WiseGeek’s what 200 calories of food looks like, BuzzFeed made a video that extrapolated those calories into 2000. Which would roughly be the amount of calories you should be eating on a given day plus or minus a few hundred (though who the hell would eat 2000 calories of the same food, right). The best bang for your buck? Carrots and bacon. Maybe chicken nuggets too. Definitely not anything from Cinnabon. [BuzzFeed] More »

How Many Calories Does a Mouse Click Burn?

For those of us who spend the best part of our day hunched over a keyboard starting at a computer screen, any physical exertion—however small—has to go some way towards constituting exercise. So how many calories does a mouse click burn? More »