How to get rid of keto breath
Keto breath is an unpleasant side effect that a person can develop when they begin following a ketogenic diet. A person can try to reduce keto breath by drinking more water or slightly increasing the number of carbohydrates they eat.A ketogenic diet, or keto diet, involves a person eating very few carbohydrates. Instead, they get their calories from consuming fats and protein....
Should You Be Focusing On Net Carbs Or Total Carbs? We Dig In
Walking through my local grocery store last week, I passed by the aisle with protein bars, granola, and generally healthy-ish snacks, and something caught my attention—a giant "keto-friendly" cookie that proudly proclaimed it had just 3 grams of net carbs on the front of the package. Cool, I thought, I like cookies and I'd rather not jack up my blood sugar. But flipping...
The Mediterranean Diet Food List You’ve Been Waiting For
They really seem to have it figured out in the Mediterranean: gorgeous weather, primo vino, and an iconically healthy eating style. The Mediterranean diet—modeled after the Italians and the Greeks—has been around since the 1960s. And when it comes to food philosophies, this one just keeps getting buzzier. In fact, it just won best diet of 2019. While trends like the South Beach and alkaline...
When LA’s Air Got Better, Kids’ Asthma Cases Dropped
Children who live in areas with bad air pollution are more likely to develop asthma, which is the most common chronic illness among young people. But when you clean up the air does that actually protect the health of kids? A study published Tuesday in JAMA, the journal of the American Medical Association, looked to answer that question. The research focused on Southern California,...
Amid salmonella outbreak, CDC warns: Don’t ‘kiss or snuggle’ chickens
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning people not to “kiss or snuggle” chickens after an outbreak of salmonella that has affected 52 people in multiple states. The CDC and public health officials have linked a widespread outbreak of salmonella infections to contact with “backyard poultry.” The agency says 52 cases have been reported across 21 states since May 10, with Ohio,...
How to have an ethical wildlife experience in Thailand
PHOTOGRAPHS OF TRAVELERS posing with wildlife on a trip to Thailand are often looked at in awe by friends and family back home. After all, it’s not every day that you get the chance to be in such close proximity to an exotic elephant or tiger. Regrettably, though, things are not always as they seem — it would be a divine miracle if you...
Mile-wide asteroid with its own moon to pass Earth on Saturday
A mile-long, walnut-shaped asteroid with its own moon is set to pass Earth on Saturday, according to scientists. The asteroid, known as 1999 KW4, will come within 3.2 million miles of Earth -- its second-closest approach in the past 20 years, WGRZ-TV reported. While this is considered close it’s still a safe distance from Earth. The asteroid is considered a binary system, meaning...
Trump’s hasty plan to get Americans back on the moon by 2024, explained
President Donald Trump wants the United States to “return to Space in a BIG WAY!” And to do so, he’s pushing NASA toward a hasty, yet-to-be funded goal: returning to the moon by the year 2024. The mission is called “Artemis,” after the Greek goddess of hunting and twin sister of Apollo. It’s a fitting name, as NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine has...
Send in your names to fly aboard the rover to Mars. (Your name, not you)
Ready to go to Mars? Well, you can get a boarding pass for a trek to the Red Planet, but only your name will make the trip. Let us explain. NASA's wants to launch its next rover to Mars next summer, with a planned landing in February 2021. The space agency is giving people the opportunity to have their names put...
MIT’s ‘RoboRaise’ helps you lift things by studying your muscles
It's all well and good having a virtual assistant like Alexa or Siri in your lounge, but they make for a pretty useless robotic companion when it comes to shifting a sofa or getting a heavy box from a cupboard. MIT CSAIL has a solution in its sights though, and has developed a robot that can help lift things by studying...
