Food A.D. Artificial Digestion That Is.
Yesterday, a story on foodnavigator.com reported on the so-called "model gut," developed by scientists at the Institute of Food Research (IFR) in the UK. The IFR says the product, first announced in 2006, is the only model of the human stomach that simulates the physical, mechanical, and biochemical processes that occur during digestion.The ostensible purpose (aside from a licensable product that food and drug companies wanna buy) is to improve food screening, drug development, and to ...
In a Rut? Create Your Gut!
and security of our food supply is not all there is to know in order to wake up and eat better. Of course, we all want clean good food. But, one of the most important concepts to help you wake up is the phenomenon of conscious metabolism. Experience shows that just as we can literally "change our mind," by changing how we think, perceive and interact with the world that surrounds us, so too can we "change our metabolism."There is much talk about how the body's metabolic meter, which ...
