Alice Roberts, an anatomist based in the United Kingdom, has been vocal about the imperfections of the human body. “I have often opined, in talks and in print, about what a hodge-podge of assembled parts the human body is,” Roberts says on her website [1]. “There are so many incompatible constraints on the design of...
This article was originally published on July 31, 2019, and has since been updated. There are many processed ingredients which hide under alternate names, making it harder to identify what’s really in your products, unless you are very aware. Palm oil is just one of them. Considered as the most favorable vegetable oil, this extremely...
This article was originally published in 2017 and has since been updated. The Impossible Burger is selling out at popular grocery stores, but most people have no idea how it’s actually made… I first heard about the Impossible Burger from my best friend, who is vegan. She told me that while ordering out with coworkers...
Colon cancer is the third most common cause of death in the world, and in the United States, it’s the second leading cause of cancer deaths [1]. Colon cancer, if it’s not obvious, is cancer of the colon, which is also known as the large intestine. Located at the end of the digestive tract, the...
Imagine waking up and finding that you no longer have arms or legs. Or part of your face. This happened to Tom Ray in 1999 at the age of 38. Before this, the former corporate banker was opening up a business with his wife Nic, who was pregnant at the time, when he developed sepsis....
