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Artificial sweeteners create deceptive sweetness
We now know that eating too much sugar can harm our health, but we are reluctant to give up sweet treats. Artificial sweeteners therefore provide a…
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Starting early – infants benefit from encounters with foods
It has been known for some time that breastfeeding helps prevent the development of allergies in later life [1]. The ideal food for newborns is breast…
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"Learning to understand water means protecting life"
The earth’s water balance is out of joint. Extreme weather conditions lead to droughts in some instances and to flooding in others. Water itself is…
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On-farm slaughter: animals' stress hormones reduced by a factor of twenty
Report on a recent study
Ultra-processed foods and cancer
Report on the new study by Kliemann et al.
Jasmin Peschke: Vom Acker auf den Teller
Was Lebensmittel wirklich gesund macht.
Milk as a mirror of its environment
Breast milk – as the first food for the newborn, whether human or mammal – contains all the essential nutrients that the newborn requires. Breast milk…
Glyphosate and the microbiome
Pesticides are substances that are used in agriculture and public health to control pests. The word “pesticide” comes from the English pest meaning…
Microbiota
Does our gut microbiota impact our thinking?
Fragrance and Aroma Painting
Fragrance painting means: smelling a part of a plant or any other sample and transforming it into a picture.
Fragrance painting is a method to…
Positive Eating
Feeling healthy is not just a matter of your physical state but also your mental well-being and spiritual activity. According to the World Health…
Meeting the Aroma
If you put a piece of good quality chocolate in your mouth while holding your nose, you will not taste the chocolate. It merely tastes sweet. Only…
The Lehenhof – a forward-looking Food System
Jasmin Peschke and Lea Sprügel
The Culture of Nutrition
Eat like the French! Nutrition as Culture
Curved cucumbers also taste good > For Jasmin Peschke appreciating food is an important step towards the avoidance of waste
Around 1.3 billion tons of food are thrown away globally every year – a third of the entire annual food production. Each food item has a history and…
Report on the online course "Nutrition and biodynamic food quality"
"The course was excellent", was how an Argentinian chef and nutritionist who teaches in biodynamic education summed up her feedback.
The organic-farm effect – World Food Day 2021: Health requires exposure
Children who regularly spend time on a farm with animals have fewer allergies because exposure to diverse stimuli enhances the immune response.…
Mindful eating: a first step towards a healthy future
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. Albert Einstein
Each year,…