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Fight back against junk food marketing

24 Monday Apr 2017

Posted by sedeer in Disease, Humans, Science communication

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Children, crowd funding, diet, Education, food, games, Health, Human, junk food, People, science and society, Science in Society

Frugivoro: a board game about health foodMost people realize that our food is loaded with sugar and that our eating habits are unhealthy, but it’s very hard to change them. Rather than simply accepting the situtation or complaining about it, my sister-in-law and her mother decided to change it. Over the past several years, they’ve designed, tested, and refined a new board game, Frugivoro, that gets kids excited about healthy foods (and sneaks in some education, too!). Many of our eating habits form in childhood, so this is a create way to counter the deluge of junk food marketing kids are exposed to. Continue reading →

Why you can’t stop – Eating & Addiction

16 Thursday Jan 2014

Posted by sedeer in Humans

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addiction, Behavior, biology, diet, eating, food, Health, Human, obesity, Popular science, science, science and society, Sugar, weight loss, yo-yo dieting

Strawberry cake (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Everyone knows sugar-rich, fatty foods are unhealthy, but we keep eating them. The diet industry is booming, but so are waistlines. In the UK, 1 out of 5 adults is obese; in the US, the figure is 1 of every 3 adults. Why don’t we eat better? Are we just too weak-willed? Maybe not. The picture emerging from recent research into the neurobiology of eating tells a different story, in which our evolutionary history and changing environment have created a dangerous new relationship with our food. Continue reading →

How much sugar is too much?

23 Wednesday Oct 2013

Posted by sedeer in Humans, Mammals

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biology, Coca-Cola, Diet (nutrition), food, Health, High-fructose corn syrup, Human, Popular science, science, Sugar

A 50cl Italian coke can. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)Everyone knows that too much sugar is bad for you, but how much is too much? According to a study published earlier this year, the amount of additional dietary sugar considered safe by regulatory agencies was enough to impact the health of mice, reducing the lifespan of females and the fertility of males. Continue reading →

7,000 years of cheese!

05 Tuesday Feb 2013

Posted by sedeer in Humans

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anthropology, cheese, dairy, food, Human, Lactose intolerance, Linear Pottery culture, milk, People, Poland, Popular science, prehistory, science

Limburger cheeseCheese may be a gourmet’s delight and a major industry these days, but it was probably originally just a good way to keep milk from spoiling and to deal with lactose intolerance.  In a paper published in Nature last month, a team of scientists from the UK, US and Poland used evidence from pottery remains to show that this venerable art stretches back at least 7,000 years.

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Found while foraging (May 7, 2012)

07 Monday May 2012

Posted by sedeer in Foraging

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food, fun, language, science, video

Here’s a collection of various bits from the web that I’d like to share.  I’m still figuring out exactly how I want to do these posts, so I’d be happy to get any kind of feedback. Continue reading →

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