Matcha suddenly became so hyped that people keep flavoring food and drinks with it. You’ll see it flavored in ice cream, cupcakes, smoothies, milk teas, and so much more. It’s like people can’t get enough of matcha-flavored stuff, but there’s a good reason for that. Aside from tasting good, matcha is packed full of health… Read More »
ImageCreditSean McSorley In 2014 John Cryan, a professor at University College Cork in Ireland, attended a meeting in California about Alzheimer’s disease. He wasn’t an expert on dementia. Instead, he studied the microbiome, the trillions of microbes inside the healthy human body. Dr. Cryan and other scientists were beginning to find hints that these microbes… Read More »
If you’ve ever gotten sick from eating something “bad,” you may have had an encounter with norovirus. Sometimes called a “stomach bug” or “stomach flu” — though it’s not related to the flu — norovirus is the leading cause of foodborne illness in the United States, causing between 19 million and 21 million cases of… Read More »