2017-05-13 13:42
On 11 April, Indonesia held the first international conference on the country’s sustainable palm oil (ISPO) scheme (1). Indonesia really needs to push for the scheme’s imple… Read More
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2017-05-13 11:52
When it comes to diet, if you follow recommendations on eating sustainably, then you will also be benefiting your health. This is because sustainable diets involve eating less meat and… Read More
2017-05-13 10:05
The alarming problems created by global warming are numerous. One of them is an increase in extreme weather events (1). Mocoa, a town in south-western Colombia, was recently devastated… Read More
2017-04-05 23:38
It will take about six to eight months to reach Mars. It’s a long time to be enclosed in a spacecraft. It makes it difficult to stay healthy and sane in a variety of ways. One of the o… Read More
2017-04-04 21:58
A study published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution has found that foraging for fruit may be responsible for the evolution of big brains in primates. These findings challenge the… Read More
2017-04-04 21:10
Astronauts going on the three-year round trip to Mars are likely to be growing plants in space, as well as on the Red Planet. Back in 2010, out of the 65 foods available for space missions a… Read More
2017-03-29 22:09
H20 Farm is a company in the UK that is using hydroponics for their fodder production. This company, as well as others (such as US companiy FodderTech), could very well revolutionise farming… Read More
2017-03-23 23:14
Using smart drugs to boost performance is not without its ethical issues. While some may claim that it’s cheating to take a substance to outcompete others, others will say that there&r&hell…Read More
2017-03-20 21:14
If you have financial worries, then there are many steps you can take to cut back on costs. It’s important to examine your lifestyle and see if anything you consume or do can be reduce… Read More
2017-03-20 20:27
Not only is veganism on the rise, but so are all kinds of different meat substitutes. Many companies seem to be doing a pretty good job at recreating meat, using only plants. Both vegans and… Read More
2017-03-11 22:25
Food waste is a bigger problem than you might think. In 2015, UK households wasted 7.3 million tonnes of food (1). This led to accusations that the government was failing in its goal to redu… Read More
2017-03-11 21:46
Permaculture involves using innovative methods to create sustainable ways of living. Its aim is to develop ecologically harmonious, efficient and productive systems that can be used by anyon… Read More
2017-03-05 22:55
We may need to get over our knee-jerk reaction to GMO crops, as they may be necessary to survive on Mars. The study of genetically modifying organisms so that they can survive on spaceships… Read More
2017-03-05 22:14
The price of lab-grown meat has significantly dropped (1). In fact, the price has dropped 30,000 times in less than four years. In 2013, it cost around $325,000 to make a lab-grown burg… Read More
2017-02-27 18:23
There are many challenges associated with long-duration space travel. There are factors, other than the technological and physiological obstacles, that will determine whether the trip to Mar… Read More
2017-02-27 17:29
One of the great challenges of the 21st century is following a diet that provides us with the many nutrients we need for health, but that is also affordable and sustainable. Home bug farms m… Read More
2017-02-27 16:26
A biodome is a form of controlled, self-sufficient ecosystem. A famous example is the Eden Project in Cornwall, UK (1). And this family in Norway has managed to build and live in one (2). He… Read More
2017-02-17 23:11
Great conversation opener: ‘I’m a weekday vegetarian flexitarian’. ‘A what?’ Try that, see what response you’ll get. And even better, actually become… Read More
2017-02-17 20:50
Food production is not sustainable (1). Agriculture uses 38% of the world’s total land area and is responsible for 70% of global freshwater consumption. This has prompted some commenta… Read More
2017-02-17 20:01
Right now the goal of SpaceX is to colonise Mars. This is the nearest planet that we could feasibly travel to and inhabit. Soon our technological capabilities will allow us to travel to, and… Read More
2017-02-15 20:30
The global population is set to reach 9.7 billion by 2050, with most of the growth taking place in developing countries (1). The United States Department of Agriculture says the nu… Read More
2017-02-14 21:35
Terraforming Mars involves changing the surface and climate of the planet to make large areas hospitable to humans. There are many reasons why permanent human habitation on Mars is being pla… Read More
2017-02-13 19:05
Colonising Mars involves many challenges. While SpaceX is figuring out how to get to Mars in a sustainable and cost efficient way, there are also many psychological obstacles that astronauts… Read More
2017-02-11 19:50
Weekday vegetarian, some people get angry when they hear this phrase. Why? I don’t really know or understand, but I’m guessing it’s because they see life as a 0-1 kind of s… Read More
2017-02-08 22:35
An article in The Guardian claimed that modafinil (marketed as Provigil) is the world’s safest smart drug (1). A systematic review published in European Neuropsychopharmacolo… Read More
2017-02-07 22:25
What is a concussion?
A concussion (or Minor Traumatic Brain Injury) is a temporary loss of normal brain function caused by quick movements or impacts to the head, neck or face, leading to b… Read More
2017-02-07 21:55
‘Menu fatigue’, simply put, is getting bored with what you’re eating, because you’re eating the same food too often. Soldiers in the army have complained about m… Read More
2017-02-06 23:07
The idea of eating insects can seem a bit unappealing if you’ve been brought up with a Western diet. We do eat them for novelty (1) or inadvertently as food colouring (2). However… Read More
2017-02-02 19:54
The Mars Farm Odyssey is an international consortium of like minds (1). They are trying to find solutions to space farming, so that food can be grown on Mars. The alternative is shipping foo… Read More
2017-01-31 20:43
It takes between 150-300 days to get to Mars (1). The time it takes depends on the speed of the launch, the alignment of Earth and Mars, and how much fuel is used. Regardless of how long it… Read More
2017-01-28 15:58
There is a large body of evidence suggesting that omega-3 fatty acids play a key role in supporting cognitive processes (1). They are considered an essential type of fat (2). Omega… Read More
2017-01-24 20:16
The writer Frank White popularised the term ‘overview effect’ in his book The Overview Effect: Space Exploration and Human Evolution (1987). This effect is the cognitive shift in… Read More
2017-01-18 21:02
SpaceX has argued that reusability is the key to making human life inter-planetary (1). Having rockets that are fully and rapidly reusable will not only save costs in terms of space exp… Read More
2017-01-15 14:14
There have been a lot of articles as of late about how we are wasting our money on vitamins and how they are simply a source for very expensive urine. I’m here to provide the necessary… Read More
2017-01-12 17:21
Elon Musk plans to colonise Mars (1) – but what would life be like on the red planet? Last September, SpaceX founder Elon Musk gave a keynote speech at the International Astronaut… Read More
2017-01-04 17:04
The UK is on its way to becoming the fattest country in Europe. Researchers at the Imperial College London predict that 4 out of 10 people in the UK will be critically obese by the year 2025… Read More
2017-01-04 14:03
The biggest meat corporations are now waking up to the fact that meat production takes a massive toll on the environment. Meat giant Tyson Foods, Inc. recently launched a $150m venture capit… Read More
2016-12-20 11:28
If you’re going to be in space for an extended period of time, there’s one thing you won’t take for granted: fresh food. Growing food in microgravity is an obvious hassle… Read More
2016-12-13 21:33
We all have our own struggles with memory loss. Whether it’s cramming before a big exam, trying to remember what was on that shopping list we forgot at home, or the normal effects of a… Read More
2016-12-03 21:31
It’s one of the things that show up on the ingredients list of some of your favorite supplements: ‘glazing agents’. What are they? Do supplements need them? Are they any go… Read More
2016-12-03 13:00
Mars 500 mission is a very interesting experiment worth talking about. Six men, 520 days in ‘space’ (on the ground in Moscow), locked in a ‘spacecraft’ (a set of modu… Read More
2016-11-25 22:57
Guest blog post by Ozcan Esen
Introduction
A nutritious and safe food program for space flight has been started by The U.S. human space flight programs (Lane and Schoeller, 1999, Smith… Read More
2016-11-20 11:04
Guest blog post by Nicole Simms
Do you spend your days worrying and feeling nervous? Does a simple task fill you with dread? If yes, then Ginkgo biloba could help you fight your anxiety.
Wha… Read More
2016-11-20 10:31
Guest blog post by Anna-Maria Volanaki
The busy everyday lifestyle has extremely changed human’s eating patterns. People tend to eat quickly, not have time to digest their food, spend… Read More
2016-11-19 14:13
Guest blog post by Victoria Princewill
What is Soylent?
Invented in 2013 by Rob Rhinehart as a way to cut down on food prep and increase productivity, Soylent is a meal-replacement product t… Read More
2016-11-13 15:11
Guest blog post by Robbie Puddick
More and more people are caring about what they are eating, where their food comes from, how it was grown, who grew it and when it was grown. This new gener… Read More
2016-11-13 14:09
Guest blog post by Sam Woolfe
There are two B vitamins that you really need to have adequate levels of, in order to ensure proper development and functioning of the brain. These are folic ac… Read More
2016-11-12 19:29
Guest blog post by Marie-Luise Joy
The term GMO stands for a Genetically Modified Organism that has had changes made to it’s DNA. These changes can prove beneficial because it now… Read More
2016-10-02 16:45
Saturday morning and it’s raining in London, so it’s a pretty good weather for some brain training. My choice? Cambridge Brain Sciences (CBS) website that I’m going to… Read More
2016-08-14 18:19
What are nootropics? We work in mentally competitive environment, under constant pressure to multi-task, problem-solve and increase our productivity. Our brains became our most valuable asse… Read More
2016-08-07 17:39
See how vitamin C, a potent antioxidant, can help you prevent memory loss caused by chronic lack of sleep.
In this video we are discussing a scientific research publication by Nizar M. Mha… Read More
2016-06-05 20:37
Here we go, a short post about water body composition. Today we will mark day 1 of the 30-day long experiment where I’m going to consume at least 1.5 liters of water. As usu… Read More
2016-06-05 19:43
So, it’s been four weeks since I decided it’ll be a good idea to drink 2 litres a milk a day. That’s 56 litres of milk consumed, 28 milk cartons recycled and around … Read More
2016-05-26 21:27
Three weeks have passed since I started what many of my friends think is a very strange diet; drinking two litres of milk a day. Why on earth do that? Well, I’m looking to find o… Read More
2016-05-18 18:49
So here we are, another week gone, another 14 litres of milk consumed (almost). Just a quick recap; I am doing an experiment to see if 2 litres of milk per day helps aid weight ga… Read More
2016-05-13 18:09
This article analyses the newly announced UK sugar tax and why it doesn’t live up to its expectations. It argues that without sufficient change to the tax or additional laws bein… Read More
2016-05-10 18:05
In the fitness and nutrition world the spotlight tends to focus on weight loss, with new low calorie diets and fat burning techniques dominating the front pages of fitness magazines. Y… Read More
2016-05-10 18:05
In the fitness and nutrition world the spotlight tends to focus on weight loss, with new low fat diets and fat burning techniques dominating the front pages of fitness magazines. Yet… Read More
2016-05-01 14:25
What do you do on a Saturday morning? Family breakfast? Jogging? Meeting friends? Or maybe recovering after great Friday night? I’m asking this question, because I find myself si… Read More
2016-03-27 00:37
I decided to give it a go and try a fast food diet for a whole week. Seven days of nothing else than fast food. Burgers, fries, desserts – fast food. To be more specific I went w… Read More
2016-03-13 19:27
This week I’m going to have a closer look at MSM. It’s one of these supplements where even the label doesn’t say much. You either know what it does and you want to bu… Read More
2016-03-06 18:19
Hi everyone! I’m very happy to report that the fruit breakfast experiment is now finished. I’ve been eating fruit in different shapes, colours, quantities, and forms as my… Read More
2016-03-05 17:11
Another day, another opportunity to discuss food supplement ingredients. And we will get them all! Today I am going to talk about Pectin, which can be found in food supplemen… Read More
2016-03-04 01:52
Today I’m going to write about sucralose: what is sucralose, what’s good about it, what’s bad about it. You get the idea. Let’s start with this: sucra… Read More
2016-03-01 21:14
Welcome back! Hopefully you enjoyed the last review (and if you missed it, it’s right here). This time I’m going to look at breakfast whey with supagrains developed by Prec… Read More
2016-02-22 00:08
In this blog post I am going to review a PROMAX protein bar from MaxiNutrition. Why this product? Why a protein bar? Weekend means some extra free time to do things that I en… Read More
2016-02-20 19:52
It’s time for an update from week 2 of the experiment to tackle chronic fatigue and inflammation (and hopefully leading to weight loss). I’ve been measuring my caloric inta… Read More
2016-02-09 00:09
Chronic fatigue is not fun, period. It’s been over a week since I started eating fruit for breakfast. No coffee, no meat, no grains, just fruit – sometimes blended, sometim… Read More
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