Organic food 101: What’s the difference between organic and conventional food?

For millions of years, humans have farmed and raised organic food. That is, food grown and raised without the use of synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, fungicides and herbicides. The use of these synthetic growth aids has increased in popularity over the 20th century and has become so common food grown or raised in this way is now considered conventional.A...

Want an Alternative to Caffeine? Meet Teeccino

Trying to cut the caffeine habit can be impossible if you’re used to waking up to a strong brew and refilling your mug a few times a day at the office. Decaffeinated coffees and teas still carry traces of the stimulant that can wreak havoc on your body even if you don’t realize it. Discovered by a German chemist in 1819, the chemical compound in coffee was...