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Cacao

Humans consume about 5 million tons of cacao beans yearly. As a comparison, it ranks behind coffee at 10 million tons and tea at 7.5 million tons consumed each year as the most widely used psychoactive chemicals by us earthlings. Yes, we like feeling up and ready for action. These substances provide caffeine and similar […]

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White Kimchi

I was shopping in my favorite international grocery store the other day when I came across something called white kimchi.  Since I am always looking for new experiences, I pulled one down off the shelf of the large refrigerator case dedicated just to various brands of kimchi.  All the other brands were the usual bright […]

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Bad Bugs and IBS

Hi , Twenty years ago, other than a few health nuts, nobody ever talked about the bacteria we carry around in our guts on a normal basis.  If anyone mentioned bacteria and gut together it was in reference to some terrible disease like cholera or dysentery.  As time has progressed the attention on the bacteria […]