Wholly Nutritious

A serious potential challenge to our food supply is the mysterious mass illness and death of not only bees, but bats and hummingbirds as well. Without these pollinators, many of our fruits and vegetables would have to be pollinated by hand, as is already done in certain regions of China, where bees have completely disappeared.
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Scientists are learning that a tremendous amount of inheritable information gets encoded into epigenetic “marks.” So far, these marks have shown up as tags on DNA itself, signposts in the protein superstructure, and even information contained in the way that the DNA-protein complex is folded differently into the nuclei of different cells. Environmental and [...]

At a nutrition conference last year, I met a young woman who worked for one of the national organizations that feed the hungry. She told me that all the food banks were then struggling with a huge upswing in donations of junky food. This was well before the recession became vicious for all [...]

I’ve been working on a new talk, and the research for it is taking me on a wild ride through some fascinating new science about how our genetics actually work.
Oour DNA is a kind of library, called a “genome,” of instructions for life, in the form of genes. But those instructions are not filed logically, [...]