How Avocados Can Halt Diabetes and How to Eat More of Them
I grew up in Southern California where having an avocado tree in your yard was not at all uncommon. There was a tree in my neighborhood that would produce so many avocados that I remember playing stickball type games with unripe ones. I think of those memories every time I wince at the price of […]
How Saturated Fat is Gumming Up Your Cellular Membranes
Remember the microscopes you used in biology class? Well, they’ve gotten a lot more powerful since then, and some exciting new microscopy research just breathed new life into the familiar (and overused) expression, “you are what you eat.” Advanced microscopic techniques have been used to examine the individual molecules that form the outer membrane of […]
An Un-Holey Snack: NY Eatery Offers Glazed Doughnut Fried in Beef Fat
Forgive me if indulge in a pun that’s a little hard to digest, but my mind is glazed over after hearing about a sugary doughnut fried in beef fat that’s now being sold by an NYC butcher.
