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The Science Behind Willpower vs. Tastebuds

12 Jul 2025

This article was first published in聽The Montreal Gazette.

Why It鈥檚 Hard to Study What People Eat

4 Jul 2025

This article was first published in聽The Montreal Gazette.

Does a Chocolate a Day Keep the Grim Reaper Away?

27 Jun 2025

Theobromine is a naturally occurring bitter alkaloid most prominently found in cocoa beans. A metabolite of caffeine, theobromine shares some of the common effects of the household stimulant....

Will Vitamin D Go the Way of Cod Liver Oil?

20 Jun 2025

This article was first published in聽The Montreal Gazette....

What If We Were Able To Graze on Grass Like Cows?

20 Jun 2025

On a future field trip to Mount Royal, I imagine opening up my lunch box to find a small forest of fried insects flavoured with MSG and curry powder. On the side are some salmon rice balls. Noting...

An Ode to Yogurt

18 Jun 2025

Many years ago, when I first started teaching about the chemistry of food, yogurt was only granted a few minutes of lecture time. It appeared as one of the first processed foods, albeit...

Resistant Starch Is Not Something to Resist Eating

4 Jun 2025

Sometimes it is hard to enlist volunteers for a study, but I don鈥檛 think that will be the case for the appropriately named SPUD Project launched by researchers at the University of Surrey in the U...

Hard Facts: What You Didn't Know About Bone Health (But Should)

30 May 2025

This past year, I鈥檝e spent an unreasonable amount of time thinking about bones. Talking about bones. Reading about bones. Writing about bones. Basically, becoming the unofficial bone correspondent...

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