Improving Food with Fermentation – Superfood or superfad?
Depending on your tastes, you may find that many of your favourite foods are products of fermentation. Wine, cheese, bread, beer, and chocolate are just a few of these products...
Nutrition in a growing world: Weighing in on nutritional supplements
For many people, nutritional supplements are a regular part of their diet. In 2015, over 45% of Canadians reported taking at least one type of nutritional supplement, including but not...
How Are Diets Changing Our Immune Systems?
“I am on a diet.” is probably one of the most commonly heard sentences these days. With or without a specific aim in mind, most of us have tried to...
“Fat to Fit” While you Sit? – The Secrets of Resting Metabolism
Being sedentary and consuming fast food are habits that have stealthily entered our fast-paced Western lifestyles and are common contributors to obesity. In response, most of us have either aimed...
A D-lightful Vitamin: The importance of vitamin D for a healthy individual
Vitamin D describes a group of fat-soluble chemical compounds that promote normal growth and development, with vitamin D2 and D3 being the most important for humans. While essential vitamins cannot...
Sleep and Immunity
As a kid, my father always emphasized the importance of sleep. Little did I know, as I hid under my blankets, reading a novel with a flashlight, that I was...
Data Storage in Healthcare: From Clay Tablets to Electronic Tablets
Someone is in an accident and is being rushed to the nearest hospital. Seconds determine the difference between life and death. Arriving at the hospital, the patient’s emergency contact informs...
When Doing Good Goes Wrong: Reimagining Effective Altruism Using Equity- and Justice-based Approaches in Global Health and Development Aid
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.– Martin Luther King Jr. (1957). The younger generations have...
Harnessing Technology for the Control and Spread of Infectious Disease Data
As the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated, our current societal dynamics such as the ease of international travel and extensive daily social interaction can enable the rapid spread of infectious diseases...
Climate Changes Our Health
Introduction The average temperature on the planet has risen almost 1°C since the late 19th century, with the majority of the warming occurring in the past 40 years. This seemingly...
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