Feb 27
The FDA has proposed a new design for the Nutrition Facts labels that come on all the food we eat—and they’re way, way better than before.
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Feb 08
Blame the RPG’s. After a generation of character building and class development in video games, quantifying our own personal stats has become as second nature as Second Life. And with these handy apps and gadgets at your disposal, you’ll be power leveling through your days in no time.
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Feb 03
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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Nov 07
Today, just over 100 years after the advent of trans fats, the FDA has announced that it’s taking the first steps toward banning them outright, removing them from the "Generally Recognized As Safe" list and out of the American food supply. It’s about time.
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Oct 14
Everything makes you fat! Gluten-free food is the key to eternal youth! You need to poop ten times a day or you’ll die! You’ll find tons of equally ridiculous health claims around the internet, and you’ll actually believe some of them. Today we’re taking a look at 10 common myths and uncovering the truth.
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Oct 08
We might not always realize it, but a lot of the stuff we’re putting into our mouths has been meticulously engineered by Big Brother to turn us into robust, super-human specimens. Sure, it kind of sounds like the plot of a corny sci-fi flick—but we’d be nothing more than rickets-stricken piles of rotting teeth without it.
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Aug 19
In the never-ending quest to create a hangover-proof booze, a team of Australian researchers have developed a beer that rehydrates you as you drink, thanks to a healthy serving of electrolytes. Think of it as beer-flavored Gatorade—only less disgusting, presumably.
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Aug 16
Did you have a few too many cookouts this summer, and maybe pack on a few too many pounds? Here’s a refresher on some healthy booze to get you drunk while keeping you trim.
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May 30
Google brings nutrition information for more than 1,000 food items to search
Posted in: Today's Chili
Google can already answer plenty of questions for you without requiring you to delve into the actual search results, and you can now add yet one more category to its knowledge base. The company’s today announced that it can answer a range of nutrition-related questions for over 1,000 different food items — everything from the amount of protein in a particular fruit or vegetable to the number of calories in a given dish. That naturally works in both mobile and desktop search, but it will remain confined to the US (and English answers only) for the time being. Google says you can expect it to roll out over the next ten days, and promises that it will be adding “more features, foods, and languages” over time.
Source: Google Inside Search
Jan 09
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