Eating in front of a video game screen or working can increase our appetite throughout the day, according to a recent study by the Nutrition and Behavior Unit of the School of Experimental Psychology at the University of Bristol (UK).
If you are obsessed with eating healthy, you could suffer orthorexia. This is the name of the obsessive disorder that takes "healthy eating" to the extreme and consists of an exhaustive and increasingly strict control of the components of food.
Elevated blood levels of the antioxidant alpha-carotene, present in foods such as carrots, broccoli or spinach, are associated with a lower risk of premature death according to a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
A team of biologists from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, have discovered a rare fish that suckles its young while they are embryos inside the mother's body.
We know that our tongue can detect five flavors: acid, bitter, sweet, salty and umami (rich in protein and present in sauces of oriental cuisine such as soy sauce). But now Russell Keast and his colleagues at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia claim to have found the sixth flavor in fat.
Wood is a very inert material, easy to shape into shapes suitable for stirring. It is less aggressive to food than metal, for example, which can scratch the container. It is true that, in the case of paella, it would be a culinary sacrilege to stir it after adding the rice, although you do have to do it first with the stumbling blocks and the base broth. According to popular knowledge, non-stick and stainless steel paellas are also prohibited, perhaps because the rice reacts with the iron in the traditional paella, which transmits some molecules that give it a certain iron flavor.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
