The benefits from fruits and vegetables in our diet include lowered risk of cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and more. A new UK study has found a strong link between eating more fruits and vegetables daily and increased longevity.

A couple of years ago, following the whole avocado toast thing, there was a trend of eating the pit (technically a seed). People would dry them out, chop or blend them into a powder, and treat them basically as a supplement, full of fiber and antioxidants. Now, research indicates that the avocado pit has some other impressive properties.

Every year, an estimated 600 million people (almost one in 10 globally) fall ill after eating contaminated food and about 420 000 die, explains Prof Buys.

In the 1990s, some researchers observed that French people—despite eating lots of saturated fat—tended to have low rates of heart disease. Dubbing this phenomenon the “French paradox,” the researchers speculated that regular wine consumption may be protecting their hearts from disease.

The novel coronavirus took the world by storm this entire year. And although most people that were infected had a mild or moderate case, many were less fortunate.

For centuries, incense has been as part of Roman Catholic traditions as well as religious celebrations of the Eastern Orthodox Church. As a matter of fact, it’s use for religious purposes was first recorded on papyrus—a thick paper-like material used for writing in ancient times—by the ancient Egyptians in 1500 BCE.