How to Start Foraging, According to TikTokers
There are more than 400,000 species of plants on Earth and at least half are suitable for human consumption—yet you’ll only find a small portion at the grocery store.
That’s part of the reason why Sam Thayer loves foraging. He started collecting wild food from the woods when he was a kid, and he still has cravings for delicacies he can’t buy. “Last year I gathered about 30 gallons of serviceberries”—blueberry-like fruits that grow on trees and shrubs—“and I make fruit leather and eat it as a snack year-round,” says Thayer, a naturalist who lives in Northwest Wi...
Source: TIME: Health - March 22, 2024 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Angela Haupt Tags: Uncategorized Evergreen healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Framing active school travel in Ontario, or how spinach is good for you - Desjardins E, Lam J, Reynard D, Collins D, Waygood EOD, Paez A.
Active school travel (AST) is promoted in many jurisdictions, including Ontario, Canada, where there is provincial support for school travel planning (STP) efforts. Two pillars of school travel plans in the province are education and encouragement. For the... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - February 16, 2024 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
3 Thanksgiving sides to steal the show this holiday
Many cooks tend to serve the same Thanksgiving side dishes year after year after year. In my house, Thanksgiving isn’t Thanksgiving without mashed potatoes, my Dad’s creamed spinach, oyster and bread stuffing, and my "famed" cranberry sauce. But I also feel the need to always include at least a…#milan (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - November 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Kale really IS healthier than spinach, according to a dietitian - but which leafy green veg is the best for you?
Kale has been dubbed a superfood for its high fiber and vitamin content. Dietitians say there are other, lesser-known green vegetables that boast just as much, if not more, benefit (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - November 6, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
I'm a Dietitian & These Are My Favorite High-Protein Fall Recipes
So bring in the best of the new season with nourishing dishes packed with warming spices and seasonal ingredients like cauliflower, Brussels sprouts and butternut squash. Flavor-packed recipes like our Noodle-Less Butternut Squash Lasagna and Slow-Cooker Buffalo Chicken Chili are ones that I make…#comfort #cajun #spinach #parmesan #persian #italian #niçoise #kalamata #andorcarrotcoins #catherinemccord (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - October 1, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The simple exercises you can do to improve eye health, reveals optometrist
People are happy to spend a lot of time and money looking after and maintaining their teeth, skin, hair, and other parts of their face, but many of us underestimate the strain our eyes go through on a daily basis. With the prevalence of technology and reliance on devices with screens, the average…#ronaldbenner #benner #bcomplex #spinach (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - August 18, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
From Salad Roulette to Salmonella in Poultry and Peanuts
(MedPage Today) -- In August 2006, Ruby Trautz of Omaha, Nebraska was the first person of several to die in a foodborne outbreak after eating uncooked baby spinach laced with E. coli 0157:H7, a pathogen that makes a deadly toxin not unlike the... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - August 17, 2023 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Pre-Colonial Delicacy Could Help Food Security and Climate Change
Togotia, a forgotten African leafy vegetable, has found its way back into markets as its high nutritional value could help address food security. CREDIT: Egerton UniversityBy Wilson OdhiamboNAIROBI, Aug 16 2023 (IPS) Kenya’s fight for food security may have just gone ‘Old School’ as Egerton University dons win a grant to help bring back a pre-colonial delicacy that was gradually sliding its way off consumers’ plates.
Their project, dubbed ‘Exploring Potential of Togotia (Erucastrum arabicum), a forgotten African leafy vegetable for nutritional security and climate adaptation in Kenya,’ won the grant in October...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - August 16, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Wilson Odhiambo Tags: Africa Development & Aid Featured Food and Agriculture Headlines Health Sustainable Development Goals TerraViva United Nations IPS UN Bureau IPS UN Bureau Report Kenya Source Type: news
Another reason to eat your broccoli! Scientists discover vitamin abundant in leafy green veg might keep your lungs healthy and ward off asthma
Scientists in Copenhagen say vitamin K in leafy greens such as spinach and broccoli could help ward off asthma. They discovered people with low vitamin K were more likely to report wheezing. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - August 9, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
How to deep freeze an entire organ —and bring it back to life
MINNEAPOLIS—
The rat kidney on the operating table in front of Joseph Sushil Rao looked like it had been through hell. Which it had—a very cold one.
Normally a deep pink, this thumbnail-size organ was blanched a corpselike gray. In the past 6 hours, it had been plucked from the abdomen of a white lab rat, pumped full of a black fluid, stuck in a freezer cooled to –150°C, and zapped by a powerful magnet.
Now, in a cramped, windowless room on the 11th floor of the University of Minnesota’s (UMN’s) Malcolm Moos Health Sciences Tower, Rao lifted the kidney from a small plastic box and gently laid it...
Source: ScienceNOW - June 21, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news
What Are Some High or Low FODMAPs Foods?
Discussion
FODMAPs is an acronym standing for fermentable oligosaccharides, disaccharides, monosaccharides and polyols. It is a diet strategy which has shown improvement for some adult patients with functional abdominal pain including some with irritable bowel syndrome. The evidence in pediatrics is murky and more well-designed studies are needed; however such studies are difficult to complete. In general, there are 3 phases to this dietary strategy:
Avoidance of all high FODMAP foods for 2-6 weeks. In some adult studies there has been improvement in 1 week. Especially in the pediatric age group, some people will only res...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - June 12, 2023 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
An Apple (and Some Blackberries) Each Day May Keep Frailty Away
TUESDAY, May 23, 2023 -- You ’ve heard of eating your spinach to stay strong, but how about loading up on your flavonols?
New research suggests that plant-based foods rich in these important dietary compounds could lower your chances of developing... (Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews)
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - May 23, 2023 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news
The Most Contaminated Foods in the Produce Aisle This Year
You may want to reconsider eating those fiber-rich strawberries. And maybe think twice before adding two very popular vegetables to your smoothie to make it “green.” Yes, we’re talking about spinach and kale. Those three items of produce are among nonorganic fruits and vegetables that contain the…#dacthal #dpca #ewg (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - April 20, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
'Superfoods' like blueberries, spinach and kale are laced with dangerous chemicals
Some 75 percent of conventionally grown fresh produce sold in America contains residues of harmful pesticides, an annual report by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) found. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - March 17, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Dementia: The 76p food that could make your brain 19 years younger, 'exciting' study finds
Packed with carotenoids, vitamin C, vitamin K, folic acid, iron, and calcium, spinach could be potent at staving off dementia. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - March 10, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
