Type 2 diabetes has long been regarded as a lifestyle disease. Lifestyle diseases, unlike infectious diseases, are ones that are caused by daily habits including poor eating, physical inactivity, and disturbed biological rhythms. These have become a huge concern around the world, not only in the United States. Type 2 diabetes has become a global…
Today, we are looking at a worldwide population that is expected to exceed 9.5 billion in the next thirty years. That means production of food will need to increase by at least 60 percent in order to feed that population. At last March’s Future Food-Tech Summit in San Francisco, this was a conversation that participants…
What if the solution to obesity and diabetes was wrapped up in a small, natural berry? What if we no longer needed processed sugars to enhance our foods? This is not science fiction. It is reality. It is called the miracle berry or, as it is scientifically known, synsepalum dulcificum. Our Answer to Sugar? Dr.…
Many of the food products we use today are cultivated in other areas of the world. But for many of these items, farmers or workers were not always paid a fair wage for their labor or their product. Many of these farmers have faced incredible hardships trying to earn a fair living and care for…
Throughout history, we’ve heard many conspiracy theories from outlandish to credible. But the one involving the miracle berry and the FDA may not have made it across your radar. In fact, a berry conspiracy sounds rather dull, unless, of course, it has kept many people away from a natural sweetener that could reduce our dependency…
America’s relationship with sugar has been one of contradictions. Once only available to the wealthy, it now makes up nearly 20 percent of our modern diet leading to our current epidemic of diabetes and obesity. Once Upon a Time, Only the Wealthy Could Afford Sugar In 1992, archaeologists opened a coffin of a woman in…
The miracle berry is getting noticed in other areas of the world which is a great thing to see. In northern Queensland, Australia, a couple has started growing the country’s first commercial crop of miracle berries after discovering a bush on their property several years ago. Accidental Farmers Chris Beckwith and his partner Karen Pereira…
Miracle berries have a long and “fruitful” history. From their indigenous use in West Africa over centuries for their ability to alter the taste of food to the United States and their possibilities for changing the course of obesity and taste regulation in cancer patients, this tiny miracle fruit has been discovered and rediscovered, yet…
The miracle berry, otherwise known as Asaba in its native country of Ghana, has been around for centuries. Used by the ancestral population to enhance the taste of otherwise bland or bitter food, it was an unremarkable staple of life. Even after it was “discovered” by western culture for its remarkable attributes, it remained unremarkable…
During or after cancer treatment, many people experience changes in the way they taste food, particularly bitter, sweet and salty food. Some are rendered bland or tasteless. But the most consequential change that befalls cancer patients is the metallic or chemical taste they experience, especially with high-protein foods. Unfortunately, at a time when they are…