Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Boiling sweet potatoes can improve their health ...

The potato, for better or worse, has played a major role in Irish life and as such, despite being a vegetable, it’s had quite an influence on Irish culture and even on the Irish language. Such was the ...

Sweet potatoes contain important nutrients like vitamin C, potassium, and fiber. They’re also rich in an antioxidant called beta carotene, which is very effective at raising blood levels of vitamin A.

Nascimur uno modo, multis morimu ('in one way we are born, in many ways we die'), and there is probably no single way to age. Indeed, so far there is no single accepted explanation or mechanism of ...

Hydrogen peroxide is a common ingredient in over-the-counter teeth whitening products and in-office dental teeth whitening treatments. You can make a teeth whitening rinse or paste at home using a 3% ...

An enzyme in the colon lining releases hydrogen peroxide -- a known disinfecting compound -- to protect the body from gut microbial communities. Findings from the study points to the importance of ...