After eating beets. The colour of beetroot is due to a family of compounds known collectively as betacyanins. Ingestion of beets can result in a bright red discolouration of the urine, and quite a...
These plastic cigs dispenses nicotine vapour without releasing any of the harmful substances found in tobacco smoke. The idea is to try and satisfy a smoker鈥檚 need for a nicotine fix without...
There is lots of bluster on the Internet about "acidic" and "alkaline" foods usually based on some story that cancer cells can only survive in an acid environment and it is therefore advisable to...
I get asked a lot of questions.聽 One of the hardest ones to answer is what question I get asked the most often.聽 Although I can鈥檛 say that I keep exact stats, my feeling is that queries about...
Had a question about lead in lipstick. You won't see lead listed on the label but doesn鈥檛 mean that there is no lead in the product. Certainly there is no lead added on purpose, but the presence of...
The strikes against meat keep piling up. This time it's a study implicating carnitine, a compound found in meat and dairy products, as a factor in heart disease. High cholesterol, hypertension,...
