When there’s ‘nothing’ on cable, and even the streaming menus run dry, my sister, Erin, gets a little loopy. Call it an overactive imagination with nothing to keep it occupied. Sometimes, she comes up with the darnedest, wacky questions, and they usually involve food and drink…Read More →
Readers elsewhere will probably have heard by now that Cannabis (Marijuana) has been legalized, nationally, in Canada. So this post, sharing research on the reason the weed makes you hungry, is not only timely here at home, but – dare I speculate? – of universal interest and impact…Read More →
Nary a week goes by that we don’t hear something about the ongoing fight against obesity – one of the scourges of our modern lifestyle in the West – and it seems there are many factors that can trigger it. Now, we have proof that adding Chili Peppers to your diet may help you fight flab…Read More →
Love Food? Hate Waste? Then, you’ll be pleased to know that a new initiative has been announced to help us all reduce the waste of perfectly good food which occurs almost unregarded every day. It’s a Canadian thing, based on a great UK program which does more than just preach its point…Read More →
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation recent commissioned a study of Canadian Eating Habits over the past 50 years, and the exercise revealed some interesting shifts. I think it’s fair to say that the results of such a survey in the U.S. would be similar; maybe not quite so similar in Europe…Read More →
They say ‘an apple a day keeps the doctor away’. Well, now, researchers at Westmead Institute for Medical Research in Australia say eating an Orange a day can help fend off the development of macular degeneration, an eye disease associated with aging that leads to blindness…Read More →