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I found a wonderful blog about herbs, focusing on their medicinal, rather than culinary, properties: Herbs I Have Known and Loved. The entries do not provide scientific references to claims of health benefits, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they are myriads of publications in PubMed that will back them up. One post in particular […]
This time of the year, if you go to the woods or even along tree-lined walkways, you’ll notice how the ground is cluttered with leaves and nuts. Perfect for children’s crafts, but also an important part of the diet of some birds, squirrels, mice, and other small animals. But, did you know that they are […]
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a visual impairment common among the elderly in which the center of the field of vision appears as a black spot (see image here). It affects approximately 15 million Americans and in the UK, about 12% of men and 29% of women over the age of 75 suffer from this […]
First of all, what’s wakame? It’s a brown seaweed (Undaria pinnatifida) collected off the coasts of Japan, and is used as an ingredient in miso soup or in suno mono salads.
Recent studies show that this seaweed is not only a good souce of iodine which can help prevent goiter, it is also high in fucoxanthin, […]
A group of scientists found out that silkworms fed with CLA-coated mulberry leaves accummulated conjugated linoleic acids (CLA) into their lipids.
You might remember my entry on milk CLA as a potential diabetes therapy. It’s pretty much the same thing. Silkworm powder is already being marketed in Asia (Korea and Japan) as a nutritional supplement to […]
I’ve entered a previous entry on genetically engineered tomatoes to Mendel’s Garden, a blogging carnival about everything genetics-related, hosted this time at Evolgen. There’s one other food entry I’ve spotted: DNA Talk marvels on the medicinal benefits of coffee, pretty much what I have enumerated in a previous entry.
What role genetics play there, however, […]
We commonly use mint an an herb in cooking or as garnishing in desserts, but we also find it in liniments and palliative ointments and massage oils. It’s pain relieving powers have been long known particularly to those who practive traditional chinese medicine, but there have also been anecdotes that even Hippocrates, the Greek scholar, […]
Sometime ago, I read somewhere (ok, I’ve no citations, but you’ve just gotta trust me, I really did) that when the budget shrinks, one the first things people tend on scrimp on is the food allowance. Smokers will still buy their cigarettes, women will still buy their lipgloss, but when it comes to buying fresh […]
If it would lessen your risk for contracting heart disease or type-2 diabetes, would you eat tomatoes genetically engineered to have enriched flavonoid content?
Flavonoids are secondary plant metabolites thought to play an important role in reducing risks for cardiovascular diseases. So, scientists came up with a tomato cultivar with richer flavonoid content by inserting […]
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