American kids consume an insane amount of sugar — often double or triple the federal recommended dietary guidelines — and these empty calories are often blamed for everything from obesity to hyperactivity in the schools. What happens when we take it away? Researchers at the University of California-San Francisco and Touro University decided to find out…
Jaimie Johnson: Born Rich, Children Of the Insanely Wealthy
The first of two films by Jamie Johnson, heir to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical fortune, captures the rituals, worries and social customs of the current generation of Trumps, Vanderbilts, Newhouses and Bloombergs. Among the peers Johnson interviews are: Josiah Hornblower, heir to the Vanderbilt and Whitney fortunes; S.I. Newhouse…
Don’t Trust the hype on gluten-free food
The switch to gluten-free foods is a booming trend, even among people without coeliac disease, but new research has found the hype is not all it’s cracked up to be, with little or no difference in the nutritional value when compared to standard products. Lead author Dr Jason Wu from…
Genius man used one first class airplane ticket to eat free for a year
Airports are often terrible places to be. There are too many people rushing somewhere combined with too many cranky folks leaving somewhere mixed with annoying obstacles in the form of TSA security and rolling luggages. But it’s just like that for us normal folk. For first class flyers? It’s like…
Changing gut bacteria through diet affects brain function, UCLA study shows
UCLA researchers now have the first evidence that bacteria ingested in food can affect brain function in humans. In an early proof-of-concept study of healthy women, they found that women who regularly consumed beneficial bacteria known as probiotics through yogurt showed altered brain function, both while in a resting state…
Long lines in Dubai for ‘Your Child in Gold’ contest
Campaign will award families two grams of gold for every kilo of weight lost Dubai: More than 1,300 people lined up on Tuesday night to enter a weight loss contest in Dubai that rewards gold for every kilo lost. The ‘Your Child in Gold’ contest follows last year’s ‘Your Weight…
Costco Kicks Out Coke And Replaces It With Pepsi In Food Courts
Coca-Cola is out and Pepsi is in at Costco. Costco has confirmed that all of its foodservice locations will be switching from Coke to Pepsi products, Jeffrey Klineman at BevNET reported. It will start gradually changing things out at its 400 U.S. stores in April as the vending contracts expire. This…
I’m dying of thirst. Can I start drinking seawater?
Before, when I saw a castaway having a bad time, literally dying for a drink but surrounded by seawater, the message in films was always ‘whatever happens, never start drinking seawater. If you were to do so, perhaps you’d feel a bit better, a bit less thirsty, but it wouldn’t be long…
