Category archives: Food/Drink

Cold brew has exploded onto store shelves in recent years. But not a lot is known about how this process alters the drink’s chemical characteristics as opposed to traditional hot brewed coffee.

Just when we thought plastics were safe, having been cleansed of BPA, along came its replacement, the chemically similar BPS. Recent research shows that BPS also acts as an endocrine disruptor, meaning it can cause as much health havoc as BPA. Here\’s how to avoid plastics likely to contain either additive.

New York Times food critic Mark Bittman pretty much said it all in a Ted talk a few years ago, outlining how we Americans became detached from healthy eating; persuaded by food companies and our government to adopt foods that are cheap, quick, inhumane and the root of our health problems. Sound blunt? Maybe, but hear him out.