Health & Nutrition Blogs
Health Blog: 5 Effortless ways to lose weight over the Holidays5 Easy Tips to Keepthe Pounds OffDuring the Holidays
Here are 5 tips to reduce the calorie intake during this season. These are easy things that won’t take much of an effort, but make a whole lot of a difference when you get on the scale January 1st.
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Radiation Blog: Airport Scanner BannedEurope bans airport X-ray scanners
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Health Blog: OMG! Pizza is a vegetableCongress is messing with school lunches and kid's health
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GMO BLOG: From Franken Fish to Franken Ape
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Health Blog: Discovery of fat hormone leptin can win 2011 Nobel Prize One Canadian and one American scientist who discovered the hormone that regulates appetite have a good chance of winning the Nobel Prize for Medicine this week (October 2011). Douglas Coleman and Jeffrey M. Friedman discovered the leptin appetite hormone back in 1995.
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Health Blog: Obese people have a problem tasting fatFatty Foods Numb the Taste Buds
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That festive time of year is upon us! So are the pounds. The Holidays are friends and family time, and as soon as we get to celebrate good times, we start munching and drinking away.
Europe has banned the use of X-ray body scanners in airports, because they cause cancer. The EU set a new regulation on November 12, 2011, that the scanners are too dangerous for use on the general public. The United States has over 250 of these body scanners in use and the federal security agency TSA plans to increase deployment everywhere.
WellWise tries to stay away from politics as much as we can, but when Congress starts touching our food in an unhealthy way, then we have no other option.
The grand debate about genetically modifying plants has expanded to fish, and is on the verge of entering the human domain, now that we are inserting human DNA into animals.
Not so long ago the ability to taste and identify fats was a survival skill. Certain fats and oils are essential for energy and for the production of hormones. Finding these fats as a hunter / gatherer was a matter of life and death. 
