Submitted for your consideration: A new, unpublished study suggests eating Fermented Veggies could reduce the risk of dying from COVID-19. Could this explain why COVID mortality rates in some countries has remained markedly lower than those in others?Read More →
While I’ve been trying to focus on Lock Down Cooking Fun and other angles on the COVID-19 crisis designed to help us all maintain a positive attitude to the ongoing privations of the pandemic, I’ve been making other notes, as well. Today, a couple of peripheral issues that deserve our attention…Read More →
What’s more fun than a bowl of Cookie Dough when snacking floats to the top of your COVID-19 menu? Ben & Jerry’s has released the recipe for its beloved Cookie Dough – star of many a B&J’s flavour favourite. But the secret behind making safe edible Cookie Dough might be the most important part…Read More →
Here we are in the middle of what I’m calling the Summer of COVID-19, and there seems to be no end in sight to the pandemic crisis. I thought that, living as I previously did, acting as primary caregiver for my elderly Mom, I was was already inoculated against cabin fever – but I was wrong…Read More →
For decades, folks with high cholesterol have been told by doctors to cut out (as much as possible) Saturated Fats from their diets. But most recent experiments and dietary surveys have strongly disagreed with that classic line. And new survey findings seem to support the latter…Read More →
We’ve got a blend of news bites this week from a variety of Fast Food and Snacks purveyors – from feeding Beef, to adding Pork to slashing Chicken. Not to mention ploughsharing Cauliflower. On the Snacks front: M&Ms blows the lid of its traditional Candy concept…Read More →
IKEA and KFC are going ahead with the launch of new Plant-Based menu items in the U.S. in spite of the ongoing – resurging – COVID-19 pandemic. It’s a few drops of good news amidst a sea of depressing stories about the social and economic chaos associated with attempts to re-open the economy…Read More →
2016 studies showed the overwhelming majority of childhood Peanut-based allergies could be avoided by simply introducing Peanut products to kids’ diets early on. New official guidelines were issued in 2017. So why are so may family doctors so reticent about implementing the new guidelines?Read More →