
Wake Up & Smell the Coffee
A very common question nutritionists get asked is coffee good for you? Well, if you were unfortunate enough to have lived in the 17th centaury in Turkey under the rule of Sultan Murad IV it would have been very bad for you. In fact, you would have gotten your head chopped off. He used to walk the streets of Istanbul disguised as a commoner with a 100lb sword and anyone he found consuming coffee got decapitated as they sipped from their cups. Luckily, times have changed since

Is Suboptimal Sleep Contributing to the Global Obesity Epidemic?
Hip-hop superstar Nas claims in one of his lyrics that he “never sleeps because sleep is the cousin of death.” Surprisingly, Nas is still alive!! Although the American rapper makes more money in a week than what I will probably make in my whole life, I strongly disagree with him on this one and I won’t be avoiding sleep anytime soon We have known for some time now that chronic sleep deprivation increases the susceptibility of negative health outcomes occurring such as high bl