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What It Is Question: What is the only insect to make food that is eaten by man? Answer: The honeybee. How cool is that? And honeybees (collectively) make a lot of honey. In fact, these the busy little workers have only one thing on their minds: to collect as much nectar as they can in their...

You’ve done the research. You bought the book. You even downloaded the app. Now all you have to do is actually do it. Do cleanses really freak people out that much? Apparently, yes. It’s all right to be a little nervous or even scared before starting your first cleanse, but the experts say the best...

It seems like everyone from celebs to your co-worker the next cube over are embarking on detox diets. From trendy juice fasts to old-fashioned cleanses involving grapefruit or cayenne pepper, these diets reputedly flush out toxins and cure nearly everything that ails us. But do our bodies really need a nutritional reboot? Turning to a liquid...

Popeye was on to something when he cracked open a can of spinach; if only he had known about kale! The year 2013 was all about kale. Things like braised kale, kale chips, kale cleanses, kale cakes, pickled kale, kale shots, and the first-ever kale festival popped up in cities around the country. So what...

The year 2013 was a bit of a bizarre year entertainment-wise (twerking, anyone?), but, from a nutritional standpoint, the year was stacked with a range of delectable options for anyone looking to get healthier. A number of food trends hit the mainstream in 2013, from relatively new concepts to resurrected oldies and some nearly unpronounceable...

I started smoking when I was 13. My habit began with me smoking one cigarette with friends, periodically, on the walk to and from school. That escalated into me having my own pack and sharing with the friends who wanted one. During the early years I could stop smoking when I wanted to. In the...

A popular culinary condiment with many medicinal uses, ginger is a lot more than just an ingredient. For thousands of years, this marvelous spice has been an integral dietary component of multiple cultures. Its culinary, aromatic and medicinal properties have made this great condiment one of the top natural foods to treat or prevent a...

A big year for workout firsts, 2013 gave us plenty of new opportunies to get active. Not only were fitness fads a hot topic in the research world, but they also made their way to the forefront of our social media, fashion and social lives (yes, people now go on SoulCycle dates!). Here’s a brief...

Usually when someone says, “Eat dirt!” they mean, “Die! I hate you! Die!” But apparently dirt-eating might be… healthy. Say what?! That’s right: NPR’s blog The Salt recently reported on the “under-the-radar” practice of eating a white clay known as kaolin. As nutritional anthropologist Sera Young told NPR’s Linda Chen, clay, when eaten, might act as “a mud mask for...

Originally proposed by George Vernon Hudson, a New Zealander working after-hours as an entomologist and wanting extra daylight for his research, DST was first implemented in 1916 in Europe to divert precious fuel resources from lighting to the war effort. Thus was born a double-edged sword: the theft of an hour of sleep in exchange...