Retrospect: the 10 food trends of 2018

The end of 2018 is in sight.  Traditionally I look back every year on the food trends of the year.  What kept us busy this year?  What were ...

The Best Vegan Vanilla Ice Cream

Ingredients for 1 pint 3 cups  cashews, ½ cup (65 g) if simply making sufficient for the ice cream (390 g) ¼ cup  water (60 mL) 1 ¼ cups  n...

Is there vitamin D in chocolate?

Now that the days are getting darker and shorter, it is important to pay attention to our vitamin D intake.  This week it was over in the me...

Vegetable And Shrimp Lumpia

Cooking for a crowd and want the perfect appetizer? Try making those shrimp and veggie-filled lumpia, or, as they’re noted within the Phili...

Vitamin D supplements do not contribute to healthier bones

Vitamin D and bone health are inextricably linked.  If you say vitamin D, you say healthy bones.  But now it appears from a recent meta-anal...

should children learn to cook at school?

Children must be able to cook at least ten healthy, cheap and tasty dishes by the time they finish school.  That is at least the opinion of ...

Is muscle damage necessary for muscle growth?

It is often claimed that good training must be followed by muscle pain.  The worse the better.  But does this theory still stand?  Did you g...

Why does hardly anyone manage to lose weight?

Despite the fact that dieting often does not work, many people regularly venture to a new hype.  This is partly because we have a too rosy p...

5 tips that make your meat much less missing

Saving animals and not sacrificing taste and nutritional value, who would not want that?  Is your image of a meal without meat still dry chi...