Maintaining Good Health Human beings require food to grow, reproduce, and maintain good health. Without food our bodies could not stay warm, build or repair tissue, or maintain a heart beat. These and other important functions are fueled by chemical substances in our food called nutri...

Food Additives Food additives have been used for thousands of years. In prehistoric times, salt was probably used to preserve meat and fish. Our ancestors also found that large amounts of sugar helped preserve fruit and that cucumbers could be preserved in a vinegar solution. The ancient Eg...

Benefits of Genetically Modified Organisms We live in a world that is constantly changing and advancing thanks to technological advancements, especially in the field of molecular genetics. Today, we are discovering and implementing new ways to overcome the ill-fated symptoms de...

Beverly Hills Diet Have you ever wanted to try one of the fad diets? One of the fad diets of the years is the Beverly Hills diet. This diet has very fast results and a great plan. It also has many advantages and disadvantages. The diet also has relations to the food pyramid and it has limitations....

Biology Concepts Introduction This experiment was about finding the fat content and molecules in foods that were chosen from our campus café. The experiment concentrated mainly on macronutrients, which are the major sources for energy and include carbohydrates, lipids, and prote...

Energy and Nutrition Being a young adult can be overwhelming and exciting. Every one says that young adults don't care about health, heart attacks, cancer or dying-only about hair, nails, weight and cloths. Young adults don't care to learn about nutrition. They think everyone is agains...

I've been a vegetarian for fifteen years, and it always makes me laugh when people act like giving up meat is equivalent to death. I stopped eating meat when I was six because I didn't like the texture; it had nothing to do with where it came from. Before then, the only reason I would eat meat was...

The benefits of eating healthy are more evident than ever. Everyday a new study comes out on how a person can maintain a healthy life. More and more people are looking for ways to have a healthy lifestyle. The media distributes mass amounts of health issues. The Internet is filled with information o...

Bioengineering is a Strong Step In a small village in Africa, a one year old boy named Kwame is exposed to the bacteria, neisseria meningitidis. Three years earlier, the same agent had infected his sister. The difference is that she developed meningitis. A week later she died. Kwame wa...