With all the nutritional products marketed to cats and dogs, including vitamins, you must wonder if a cat really needs any of this. Lots of people wonder if cats need vitamin C, for instance, since it is so important for humans. Even a basic knowledge of nutrition will tell you that there is no vitamin […]
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NO, You Can’t Feed Your Cat a Vegan Diet
In June of 2014, the image of an article started circulating on Facebook. The headline read “Vegan” Kitten Nearly Dies.” Is it true? Did a kitten nearly die from being fed a vegan diet? Yes, this report was a real one. It was an article that had been published in Australia’s Herald Sun on July […]
We May Soon Have A Cancer Vaccine!
In the video below, Hank Green of the SciShow talks about an exciting new development in cancer treatment: A potential cancer vaccine. Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have been working on two novel immune-stimulating agents. They have injected these agents into the solid tumors of mice and found that the agents eliminated all traces of cancer […]
Sleeping Two Or More Times Instead Of Once a Day?
Have you ever heard of polyphasic sleep? Or biphasic sleep? Poly, as a prefix, means many. And bi-, as you know, means two. Phasic simply refers to phases. So, polyphasic sleep means sleeping in several phases, while biphasic sleep means sleeping in two phases. Either is just a fancy way of saying sleeping more than […]
Karswood Creosote – Inhaling Wood-Tar Creosote will Cure Colds, Flu, and Tuberculosis!
If you have a fireplace and have ever had to clean it out, you are familiar with creosote. As well, if you’ve ever taken a walk on the tracks, and noted the sticky black coating on the railroad ties, you’ve discovered creosote. It is a by-product of the burning of wood or coal, which leaves […]
Will We End Aging In Your Lifetime?
Although CulinaryLore is primarily concerned with food-related topics, once in a while I deviate a bit beyond food science, food history, or cooking and write articles on other things besides food-related topics. However, even most of these are tangentially related and could be said to fall under the umbrella of food science or to be […]