Food

Fruits and veggies are health heroes---but some come with hidden hitchhikers. Some carry more surprises than others. The "Dirty Dozen" is a nickname...

Spring 2025

Fruits and vegetables are packed with essential compounds that contribute to overall health. They're loaded with antioxidants to fight cell damage,...

Spring 2025

Grains get a bad rap. This is mainly because the grains we eat are refined flour. Refined flour is not a natural product--it is a processed food, but...

Fall 2024

Oranges are native to Southeast Asia. The Middle East had citrus fruit by 500 BC. In about the 700s, oranges were brought to Spain. Through years of...

Fall 2024

Every kitchen needs vegetable oil. It's in almost every recipe, and it's the first thing we reach for when cooking, frying, or baking. Vegetable oils...

Fall 2024

Sandwiches are easy to make and popular. On any given day, half of us are eating a sandwich. How can we make the lowly sandwich healthier?

Spring 2024

The key to healthy eating is the shopping. To eat healthy, you must have healthy foods available and limit access to unhealthy foods. This means...

Fall 2023

Enzymes are keys that enable the digestive system to unlock nutrients in food.

Fall 2023

Avocados traces to the Aztecs who grew and ate them. The name also traces back to the Aztecs. They are sometimes called alligator pears because of...

Spring 2023

Cinnamon is the dried bark of a tropical tree. When the inner bar is cut from the tree, it curls as it dries, making cinnamon sticks. It was known to...

Fall 2022

The oats that we eat are the seeds of a grass. Most oats are used as animal feed--horses, cows, and other livestock. In Roman times, oats were...

Fall 2022

There are no miracle foods, but a few melodic foods synchronize resonating health benefits with an ensemble of flavours. Garlic is one of those...

Spring 2022

Tree nuts, which are most nuts except peanuts, are seeds for nut trees. That is why they are so nutrient-packed---they have the food required to sprout...

Spring 2022

The dark green leaves of spinach have been grown in Europe for 1,000 years. It originated in Persia but grows best in cooler weather, so it is great...

Summer 2021

Sugar, as we know it, was largely unknown until the modern world. In the medieval world, sweetness came from fruit or honey. In the middle ages, sugar...

Fall 2020

Chocolate, everyone's favourite food, is made from the beans that grow on the cacao, or cocoa (co-co) tree. The tree's Latin name means "The food of...

Winter 2020

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Spring 2019

Gluten is a protein that holds baked good together. Three-quarters of all the protein in wheat is gluten.

Spring 2019

Fruit Of Paradise - an article from Panacea Magazine, Winter 2019

Winter 2019

Not that long ago, a lot of time was spent by men, women, and children preparing for winter. Food was gathered and canned, or stored in a cool, dry...

Winter 2019

Grow Op - an article from Panacea Magazine, Fall 2018

Fall 2018

Tracking is the Ticket

Fall 2018

The Great White Vegetable

Fall 2018

How to Keep your Barbecues Healthy

Summer 2017

Foods Which Fight Inflammation Article - an article from Panacea Magazine, Spring 2017

Spring 2017

The roasted bean water is the drink of choice of millions of people every day. Aside from the benefit of the burst of energy caffeine supplies in every...

Winter 2017