The “carnivore diet” has become popular lately. The diet often brings short-term health benefits because adopting this diet means leaving...
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Vitamin C is the queen of vitamins, of which we constantly seem to fall short. The established recommendations just might not quite cut it – an issue...
Did you know that most animals do not have to get vitamin C via food? They produce the molecule internally because they have the genes to do so. Vitamin C is...
Have you heard about the benefits of taking collagen, but don't want to take an animal-based supplement? Well, here is the good news: we can boost our own...
Did you know that most animals produce vitamin C internally, while humans have to get this important antioxidant from their diet? Most species have functional...
Not having access to fully ripe fruits is not only unsavory: underripe fruits do not provide the nutrition we expect and need. Moreover, unripe fruits still...
What have we evolved to eat? This is the fundamental question when taking a biological approach to nutrition – and there is certainly room for more input...
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"We are frugivores - specialized fruit-eaters!" It was passion at first sight when I came across the intriguing concept that humans are adapted to a high-fruit diet, similar to chimpanzees...