Skip the Salt and Shake on Potassium Chloride?

Skip the Salt and Shake on Potassium Chloride?

Worldwide, physical inactivity accounts for more than 10 million years of healthy life lost, but what we eat accounts for nearly 20 times that. As I discuss in my video Fewer Than 1 in 5,000 Meet Sodium and Potassium Recommended Intakes, unhealthy diets shave hundreds...
Chemical Safety, Cultivated Meat, and Our Health 

Chemical Safety, Cultivated Meat, and Our Health 

More than 95 percent of human exposure to industrial pollutants like dioxins and PCBs comes from fish, other meat, and dairy. By cultivating muscle meat directly, without associated organs like intestines, the incidence of foodborne diseases “could be significantly...
Antibiotic Resistance, Cultivated Meat, and Our Health 

Antibiotic Resistance, Cultivated Meat, and Our Health 

Medically important antibiotics are being squandered by animal agriculture to compensate for typical factory farming practices. Cultivating muscle meat directly from cells instead of raising and slaughtering animals would reduce the risk of foodborne illnesses “due to...
Food Safety and Cultivated Meat 

Food Safety and Cultivated Meat 

What are the direct health implications of making clean meat—that is, meat without animals? In a 1932 article in Popular Mechanics entitled “Fifty Years Hence,” Winston Churchill predicted that we would one day “escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order...