When it comes to food and our senses, most people think that only taste and sight are important. The truth is that all our five senses interact in different ways to influence our experiences with various food and beverages. Similarly, most people mistakenly assume digestion starts in the stomach when it actually starts in the brain. The brain depends on our senses to get ... Continue Reading
How To Start Your Day With Food
We all seem to start our day with the same grogginess, a desire for more sleep and the knowledge that no matter how hard we try, eating immediately is not appealing. We typically will hit the snooze button many times, leaving us in a daze, then simultaneously commute and eat a breakfast bar that is too dense and far too high in protein for the desk job to which we are about to ... Continue Reading
Avoid These 9 Nutritionally Deficient Foods
With so much misinformation out there about food and how it affects human health, making healthy food choices for you and your family can be difficult and confusing. There are a number of specific foods; however, that you will want to avoid in almost every circumstance because they provide virtually no health benefits while posing plenty of health risks. Here are nine foods ... Continue Reading