In my spare time, I love to cook. I aim to recreate in my cooking the taste, textures, and flavors that I have experienced in my childhood in the restaurants on Mount Carmel, in Haifa, the city in which I grew up, along the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. I approach cooking as scientific ...
The importance to our health of the substances we consume is a frequent topic in the media, yet poorly understood. A beverage consumed by billions of people globally will naturally generate concerns regarding its benefits to well-being. Tea is currently the most popular beverage in the world ...
By RANDY CROUCH Journal Staff Writer HOUGHTON — Michigan Tech University was recently honored for its Up and Moving program by Exercise is Medicine. Tech is one of only 156 universities worldwide to receive the honor. Exercise is Medicine is a global health initiative that promotes ...
National Kidney Month is observed every March in the USA. The intent of National Kidney Month is to make us aware of the significant importance of maintaining our kidney health. This month is also a time to encourage people to support kidney disease research and to take steps to keep their ...
You’re lying in bed, warm, relaxed, finally shedding the tension of your day, drifting off to sleep. Suddenly, quite forcibly, your calf muscle contracts sharply, uncontrollably. An alternate scenario: a soccer player, an hour into an intense match, falls to the ground, dropped by a ...
In my last article, I asked, Should you go on the Gluten-free diet? I wrote that the trend is gaining momentum with a growing number of people consuming gluten-free food products. Gluten is a mixture of proteins found in wheat, barley, rye, and oats. Gluten gives the dough its elasticity and ...
