Ingredients and additives
Acrylamide: what forms during frying and baking
Acrylamide is not present in raw foods — it forms during the cooking process, in the same place where a golden-brown crust and its aroma appear.
Coffee and tea
How much caffeine is in a cup, where the calories hide at a coffee shop, and what is known about the benefits.
Calorie counting
Calorie content of coffee shop drinks: where the difference hides
In a coffee shop, calories are often hidden in the cup rather than in the food next to it.
Biohacking
Caffeine and adenosine: why it works, why it stops, and what to do about it
Caffeine does not supply energy.
Nutrition
Coffee: how much you can drink and what adds calories
There are three questions about coffee, and they are different: how much caffeine is safe, does coffee harm your health, and why a latte with syrup costs as much as a full meal.
Nutrition
Tea: how much caffeine is in it and what is known about its benefits
Black, green, oolong, and white teas are all the same leaf from the same plant, differing only in the degree of oxidation.
Weight loss
Fat burners: what L-carnitine, green tea, and caffeine do in the body
A fat burner bottle usually says something true: carnitine does indeed transport fatty acids into the mitochondria, and caffeine does indeed increase energy expenditure.
From reading to doing. All of it starts in one place — knowing what is on the plate. Photograph it and the calories and macros appear on their own.
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