Have you heard of “personalized nutrition?” It’s an approach to dietary advice that uses tests of a person’s genes, blood and other body fluids, and gastrointestinal tract, as well as questionnaires, to develop individualized nutritional recommendations. Personalized nutrition’s global value was estimated at $12 billion in 2022, and it’s projected... Read more →
By Abigail Capella, Guest Author, Keselman Construction Group Historic low home sales in recent years are causing more homeowners to put off buying a new home and investing in what they have. But you never put equity into a house without expecting something out of it, right? Whether you’re remodeling... Read more →
Most consumers are confused about the new rules related to compensation for realtors in the home buying transaction and the changes are generating lots of headlines. The new rules offer great new opportunities for consumers to save money. How realtors are paid has always been confusion and, while valuable, home... Read more →
About a dozen times I’ve written about price gouging being one of the biggest drivers of inflation, along lamenting about how politicians weren’t talking about it. President Biden took up the topic recently, and Kamala Harris, vice president and the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, announced it Friday as part... Read more →
More than one third of all food produced globally goes to waste, and 8 to 10 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions are generated by producing food that’s never eaten. Fixing this seems like an unsurmountable problem, but Danielle Nierenberg, president of Food Tank, a think tank, said companies and... Read more →
Among the first articles I wrote as I began my journalism career was on salt. In 1982, salt was called “A New Villain” on the cover of Time magazine. Studies showed that high salt consumption led to high blood pressure. Now, more than 40 years later, government regulators still are focusing on voluntary targets rather than mandatory ones. Read more →
My daughter Mona is a Ph.D. botanist. When she was in the ninth grade she said she was going to study horticulture and be a botanist. Mona loves plants. Whenever we go on vacation, she “botanizes,” checking out the plants, bushes, and tree and identifying them. When she was in the middle of doing her doctoral thesis on cape ivy, we took a trip to Spain and Portugal. Read more →
When I went out to my garbage can a few weeks ago, I noticed a terrible small. Right away, I spotted the problem: someone had put plastic bag with dog poop in my garbage can. Unfortunately, my garbage can was handy because I’d put it by the street to keep... Read more →
For years, I shopped at the local farmers market. We’re fortunate to have a large, permanent space provided for the market. Through the years, I haven’t noticed food safety errors, such as those pointed out in the in the food safety tips information provided below by the USDA. However, our farmers market is big with lots of foot traffic. Read more →
Monopoly power hurts consumers in so many ways every day. It’s good news that states and the federal government are bringing more antitrust actions. A federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled Monday that Google unlawfully leverages its dominance in the online search and related text advertising markets through exclusionary contracts, harming consumers and advertisers. Read more →