Chinese fermented foods have a rich history stretching back thousands of years, forming a core part of traditional diets and medicine. Staples like doubanjiang (fermented broad bean paste), douchi (fermented black soybeans), jiang (soy sauce-type pastes), fermented tofu, pickled vegetables, and rice wines such as Shaoxing wine are not only prized for their deep umami flavor but also valued for their digestive and health benefits.
The trend held across most individual symptoms—except constipation. “Choosing to eat fewer processed foods and more whole, nutritious foods could be a good strategy for maintaining brain health,” said Gao. “More studies are needed to confirm our finding that eating less processed food may slow down the earliest signs of Parkinson's disease.”
While the study didn’t examine diet directly, scientists widely agree that food plays a critical role in shaping the gut microbiome — the community of trillions of bacteria in our digestive tract. Some of these bacteria are protective. Others, like colibactin-producing E. coli, can be harmful.
Exercise Scheduling: How Often Should You Work Out? Working out requires a good level of concentration and physical effort. Regardless of the routine and exercises you want to follow, time will always be a factor. That’s why experts suggest working out 30 minutes daily, five days per week, for improved health. However, this recommendation does […]
When you think about health, the first things that come to mind are probably diet and exercise. While maintaining good physical health is definitely important for daily and long-term function, you shouldn’t discount the importance of practices that center your mental and emotional well-being.
Studies have shown animals use flavour as a guide to the vitamins and minerals they require. If flavour serves a similar role for humans, then we may be imbuing junk foods such as potato chips and fizzy drinks with a false ‘sheen’ of nutrition by adding flavourings to them. In other words, the food industry may be turning our nutritional wisdom against us, making us eat food we would normally avoid and thus contributing to the obesity epidemic.
A keto diet is based on meat. Scientists say the diet improves spatial memory and visual memory, lowers indices of brain inflammation, causes less neuronal death and slows down the rate of cellular ageing
Israelis, says research published by the University of Washington, enjoy the world’s healthiest diet. The study, Global Burden of Disease, was conducted by Dr Christopher Murray, Director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, and published in the UK medical journal The Lancet. It followed the diets of people in 195 […]
You could even start an organic meal preparation program that uses seasonal produce and sets a clear schedule for pickups and deliveries. Many kitchens test a delivery model that integrates meal prep business ecommerce into their website ordering flow to minimize waste and predict demand. That approach helps you track portions, forecast ingredients, and keep the menu aligned with what nearby farms can supply.
Eating too fast leads to poor digestion and poor weight control. No brainer. But do we need a digital fork to help adhere to that maxim? Goofing around online, I spot a cool-looking kitchen gadget: a fork that could be a love-child of IKEA and Apple. I click on the video and nearly spit out […]
Kids in the Middle East love those super-sweet soda and drink beverages. Loaded with sugar, parents should limit intake for new reasons. With all the food and beverage issues making headlines, like pink slime hamburgers and meat glue worries, there is new bad news on syrupy soft drinks that people order with those “slime burgers” and French […]
Major pink slime company files for bankruptcy protection in the US. Dubbed ‘Pink Slime’ by activists and ‘finely textured beef’ by the manufacturers, beef filler made by ammonium has turned out to be a smoking gun in the food industry, demonstrating just how powerful activist intervention is in changing paradigms. One of the biggest ground […]
Modern agriculture started in the Middle East. Can people here switch to the Paleo Lifestyle and eat like Cave Men? What should humans eat for optimal health? The key word here is optimal. Our bodies are remarkable machines, and we can manage, more or less, on a wide variety of foods. But what foods work […]
Potatoes are bad for heart health, according to recent research. The United States Department of Agriculture released the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010, a little bit late–on January 31, 2011. And according to the Harvard School of Public Health, the recommendations are behind the times as well. The new USDA guidelines emphasize a diet rich […]