Category: Heroes and villains

If you want to lose weight, it’s all about the CICO – Calories In Calories Out: or is it? Calorie

Ever wondered why modern chickens are egg-laying machines? Why, biologically, would a creature deliberately lay (mostly infertile) eggs loaded with

Herschel Island, The Yukon. 1906: Unlike the rest of his colleagues, the explorer and anthropologist Vilhjálmur Stefánsson decided to walk

Eat Well and Stay Well In 1959 Margaret and Ancel Keys wrote their first cookery book Eat Well and Stay

There’s a chemist in the kitchen London, 1831: At a time when the functions of the human body were considered

Don’t eat food, eat calories California 1918: By the end of the First World War Lulu Hunt Peters, an east

like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn … human beans [are] bread… sugar, beer