Archive for the ‘food’ category: Page 277
Sep 23, 2017
Why Are These People Eating Worms to Be Healthy? (part I)
Posted by Brady Hartman in categories: biotech/medical, food
Summary: The Hygiene Hypothesis persuades people to consume parasitic worms as a way to treat chronic autoimmune disorders. As well, people eat tapeworms as a way to lose weight. Learn more about two closely related scientific beliefs called the “Hygiene Hypothesis” and the “Old Freinds Hypothesis.” Part 1 of a 2-part series. Cover photo: 3drenderings / Getty Images.
It’s difficult to believe, but thousands of people eat worms as a way to lose weight or cure diseases.
People don’t just eat worms on TV shows, like the Fear Factor. Some extreme dieters consume tapeworms as a way to lose weight. Another group of people ingests parasitic worms known as helminths to ward-off the debilitating symptoms of autoimmune diseases.
Continue reading “Why Are These People Eating Worms to Be Healthy? (part I)” »
Sep 23, 2017
Why Are These People Eating Worms to Be Healthy? (part II)
Posted by Brady Hartman in categories: biotech/medical, food, health
Summary: Helminthic therapy is the intentional consumption of parasites as a treatment for autoimmune disease. Out of the 7000 people who practice helminthic therapy each year, this report tells the story of a young woman who purchases black market worms and then treats herself at a high cost. Part 2 of a 2-part series. Cover photo: Eraxion / Getty Images.
Would you eat worms to boost your overall health or cure what ails you?
Over 7,000 people intentionally self-infect with parasites, and the practice is growing in popularity.
Continue reading “Why Are These People Eating Worms to Be Healthy? (part II)” »
Sep 15, 2017
This Brooklyn-Based Startup Is Growing Leather In Labs—Cruelty Free
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: food, genetics
Modern Meadow believes leather is a “co-product of the meat industry.” You can’t get cattle hide without stripping it from meat. Rather than configuring new ways to utilize polymers, the Brooklyn-based company genetically creates proteins similar to bovine collagen. As Inventionr reports :
Modern Meadow has formulated a method of activating the building blocks of proteins to form fibres without using natural fibroblasts. Once the fibres form, they can as well be assembled, according to its intended purposes, into fine sheets of leather. Once the process reaches this point, other processes like tanning and dyeing can proceed in the normal way.
Continue reading “This Brooklyn-Based Startup Is Growing Leather In Labs—Cruelty Free” »
Sep 12, 2017
Autonomous Robots Plant, Tend, and Harvest Entire Crop of Barley
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: food, robotics/AI, sustainability
Proof that traditional farms can be 100% automated already.
This is as autonomous as farming gets, without any humans having to get themselves dirty, or even go outside.
Continue reading “Autonomous Robots Plant, Tend, and Harvest Entire Crop of Barley” »
Sep 8, 2017
There’s a new kind of chocolate for the first time in 80 years — and it’s pink
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: food
The tiny Netherlands has become an agricultural powerhouse—the second largest global exporter of food by dollar value after the U.S.—with only a fraction of the land available to other countries. How has it achieved this? By using the world’s most efficient agricultural technologies.
Harvesting.
Read more
