Articles (Gastronomy)

How to Fight Obesity and Overweight
(Food, Mood, and Behavior)

Obesity means having a lot of body fat, while being overweight could mean having extra body weight. Both obesity and overweight mean that one’s weight is more than what is deemed healthy.

​Healthy Mid-Day Snacks
(Food, Mood, and Behavior)

It is almost 3:00 pm, and your energy levels are on the low; you can neither focus nor resist the urge to sleep.


Gastronomy Techniques
(Food, Mood, and Behavior)

Gastronomy is the craft of assembling and serving exquisite and delicious food using scientific methods to provide more flavors and dishes.


Is Your Salad Boring?
(Food, Mood, and Behavior)

No one can deny the benefits of salads. It is the salad dish per day that can actually keep the doctor away. 


How to design a complete meal?
(Food, Mood, and Behavior)

Healthy nutrition is the key for having good overall health and preventing multiple diseases. 


Note-by-Note Cuisine
(Physical and Chemical Sciences)

Note-by-Note Cuisine is a relatively modern trend of cooking that takes cooking to much further and unpredictable realms.


Can You Really Become A Sugar Addict?
(Food, Mood, and Behavior)

People around the world are eating more sugar than ever before; that is because the food industry has been adding more of it to various products over the years. 

Detox Diet: A Myth or Reality?
(Food, Mood, and Behavior)

Detox, short for detoxification, is the removal of potentially toxic substances from the body. 

Good Summer Nutrition
(Food, Mood, and Behavior)

Summer is on; the weather is getting really hot. Since we are in a vacation season, we will be going on picnics or we will be enjoying the beach, but what food should we eat to stay fresh and cool?


Food Sharing Programs
(Education, Business, and Society)

Every Wednesday morning Mr. Günther, an old helpless man living in an outskirt of Berlin, wakes up in the morning, wears the nicest thing he has, carries his big basket, and heads to the weekly central food-sharing gathering in his area. After the gathering, Mr. Günther comes back home with a smile on his face and a basket full of fresh and delicious food enough for one week until the next gathering, all for free. I had the pleasure meeting Mr. Günther during my short stay in Berlin. As a person who lived in Egypt for a lifetime, I was quite impressed by the strictly systemized and regulated German food-sharing system. As we rode together on the train, Mr. Günther explained how the system works.

Meat of the Future
(Food, Mood, and Behavior)

In the future, meat will no longer come from animals, or at least that is what scientists are hoping for. Scientists have, in recent years, been working on growing meat in labs, this is produced through “tissue-engineering” technology. The reason researchers are working on developing this new scientific field is to try to provide cruelty-free meat, as well as combat the adverse environmental impact that cattle farming creates. The advantages of growing meat in labs, is that it will take up less space than cattle farming, freeing up fields to be used for farming or other projects.

Royal Jelly
(Food, Mood, and Behavior)

Queens always receive special treatment, and bees are no different. 

Sleep: Getting a Good Night’s Worth
(Food, Mood, and Behavior)

Like good nutrition and exercise, adequate sleep is part of a healthy lifestyle. Sleep deprivation is an unrecognized cause of many problems. 


Microwaving Food
(Food, Mood, and Behavior)

Now, almost all the homes around the world have microwave ovens used for meal preparation or food re-heating. Microwave ovens are so popular because they cook food in an amazingly short time.

How to Keep Your Child Healthy
(Food, Mood, and Behavior)

A sick child can make you miserable. Do what you can to keep your child healthy and help everyone to be happy!

Molecular Gastronomy
(Food, Mood, and Behavior)

Playing around with your senses, that is one thing that molecular gastronomy experiments with.


Deadly Tastes
(Food, Mood, and Behavior)

Not all the food we consume is safe. 


The Sixth Taste of Food
(Food, Mood, and Behavior)

Scientists have discovered a sixth basic taste that the human tongue can detect—fat.

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