This is a fatal conceit that we understand enough
about food chemistry and biology to reduce all foods to a blend of fat, protein and carbohydrate.
I know, I know, this is it Charles, there's nothing going on here that would lead you to believe that it could possibly come out looking anything like a conventional cookie, and yet... I find it all so baffling... makes me very curious
about the food chemistry (or mad science; 0) behind it all!
Not exact matches
Fear of formula ingredient list = «I know nothing
about food science or
chemistry, and I don't care.
Feels like some days I need a PhD in
chemistry to really know what's going on: bottle water is «enhanced with minerals for a pure, fresh taste» and what's «natural»
about many «natural flavorings»,
food dyes, etc..
While studying synthetic organic
chemistry for his Master's, he met a
food scientist who told him
about how cherished chemists are in the
food industry, where «you can work on products that people can feel, see, and touch,» he recounts.
But in his free time, Bressanini turns into a
food science nerd: His YouTube channel and monthly column and blog for Le Scienze magazine, the Italian edition of Scientific American, are all
about the physics and
chemistry of
food.
When I was in college, after taking
chemistry classes, and learning
about how
food was processed, with either chemicals or fermentation to the point where bugs & fungus grew on it, I became «orthorexia» except that back then there was no name for this condition.
And equally important, when we create a sense of stress around numbers — the scale, our
food amount, our calorie counting — we literally go into stress
chemistry, meaning sympathetic nervous system dominance — which translates into increased cortisol and insulin levels, which in turn will tend to signal the body to store weight, store fat, and not build muscle — just the opposite effect of what we are looking for by obsessing
about numbers.
For anyone who has ever wondered how
food affects our ability to concentrate and be productive, this talk will explain how the
chemistry of
food affects the
chemistry of the brain, including all of the latest research studies
about the subject.
If you're following the GAPS Diet, gluten - free casein - free, or any healing
food strategy intended to improve the body's
chemistry and functioning, you should be curious
about camel milk.
Children learn
about mathematics,
chemistry, and cultures when they learn to grow and make their own
food.
Dr. Kennedy is very passionate
about wellness care, particularly in looking at
food as medicine - the way we affect our pet's body
chemistry every single day.
Since many of the people who ask
about this are using Canine Health - The Miracle Dog
Food, which is my pre-mix and the diet that I have advocated for over 25 years, I respond to their inquiries with the following information which is based on knowledge of
chemistry and the facts.