Food & Nutrition: Culinary Techniques, Diets & Metabolic Health

Nutritional health is achieved through the therapeutic use of whole foods, safe culinary preparation, and understanding the metabolic impacts of specific dietary frameworks and ingredients.

Warnings for Holy Basil

Holy basil, also called tulsi in Ayurvedic medicine, is viewed as a relatively safe, aromatic herbal remedy popular in alternative medicine. Herbalists extol the plant's valuable healing properties and recommend it as a treatment for a range of ailments.

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Postage stamps from USA 1960's

How Many Calories Do You Consume While Licking a Stamp?

Licking the back of a postage stamp may seem a perfectly innocuous activity for calorie-counters and dieters, but lick enough of them and the calories may start to add up, especially if the stamps are British and larger than normal.

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