Doctors have long known – and warned – that drinking and pregnancy don’t mix. But now there’s more – and more-definitive – proof of that old caveat… And oddly, the latest study found that drinking heavily increased the risk of unwanted pregnancy…Read More →
Photo, below, is not yours truly. But it cer-tainly represents the way I feel today. The older I get, the stronger a flu magnet I be-come. And I’m back in the dumps, probably with the latest COVID strain going around… We’ll just try to cook our way through it!Read More →
Tell it to Trump, and he’ll probably prefer not to believe you. But farmers are now starting feel the results of the US President’s tariffs and mass foreign worker deportations in their own fields. Thousands are on the verge of losing millions…Read More →
Conventional wisdom regarding the associ-ation of diet and exercise with weight loss and maintenance dictates that a combination is required to achieve desired results. Not necessarily so, says a new Duke University study.Read More →
“Too good to be true?” That was my initial re-action when I read the preamble to a recent scientific report that announces the discovery of a new class of bioplastics which seems to address all the evils of petro-plastics – and more!Read More →
What’s this? Scolding ME for publishing a Bad Idea here at the FFB? Faithful readers know I’d NEVER do so intentionally. So what did I miss? A concerned parent says an ice cube tray full of Sangria cubes could be mistaken for a kids’ treat – by kids…Read More →
This is a new one for me: But the occasion most assuredly calls for it… Something has come up in my daily blogging activities that calls for a direct ‘open letter’ from me to the author(s) of a study in your esteemed col-lection of peer-reviewed journals…Read More →
I had to read the headine several times, and double check the glam product photo accom-panying the new product review, before laying fingers to keys for this one… What is Dayia Herb & Garlic, really? And is there really such a thing as premium Boxed Mac and Cheese?Read More →