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A Cultural History of Yogurt

9 Jan 2026

This article was first published in The Montreal Gazette. ...

2025 Year in Review

28 Dec 2025

January Article - Is Oil Pulling Just Clutching at Straws? [Angie] February

Antsy About Getting Old? How about Some Ant-Yogurt?

10 Dec 2025

I do get some interesting questions. How about this one? “Why in Central Europe did we as kids put a straw on an anthill, wait for the ants to crawl over it and then suck it for its sour taste? My...

An Ode to Yogurt

18 Jun 2025

Many years ago, when I first started teaching about the chemistry of food, yogurt was only granted a few minutes of lecture time. It appeared as one of the first processed foods, albeit...

What if Dr. Kellogg had watched Seinfeld?

1 Nov 2024

This article was first published in The Montreal Gazette....

Good Bacteria to Prevent the Flu? Interpreting the Data Is Messy

24 May 2018

“We have a ton of studies that have shown that eating [Danone’s DanActive yogurt with L. casei probiotics] at a dose of about two containers per day can actually decrease your incidence and...

"Insects on the Bottom" Yogurt

20 Mar 2017

In general, I find “Center for Science in the Public Interest” to be a very reputable organization and I always enjoy reading “Nutrition Action,” their flagship publication. I usually find myself...

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