No – not some lovely green wish list – official Russian statistics from 1999 when 'more than 35 million families (105 million people, or 71% of country’s population) owned a dacha or a subsidiary plot and were cultivating it… The 35 million plots of these families occupy more …
Alternative/Complementary Health
The three most significant inventions in the history of food and drink
'The Royal Society - the UK's national academy of science - has today named the fridge, pasteurised milk, and the tin can as the three most significant inventions in the history of food and drink. These relatively modern innovations outscored more ancient inventions including the …
Chocolate – again….
I just caught the tail end of a report on the radio this morning about yet another benefit of chocolate – apparently it can cut the rate of stroke in women. (See the report in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.) By the time I logged in the kill-joy reporter was …
Research – benefits and frustrations
I have only just realised, belatedly, that you are able to subscribe for email updates on specific research threads in our huge research and news forums. (For any of you who are not aware of them, these are John Scott's weekly, and sometimes daily, updates on new research and …
Evidence-Based Medicine: the Orthomolecular view
This article originated with the excellent Orthomolecular News Service (subscribe here) and has been hanging around in my in-box for months as I thought it was so well worth reading but could not really find a home for it on the FoodsMatter sites. So, why not …