Merry Christmas to everyone. As usual for this blog at this time of year, for your Christmas reading we will take a look at a particular as...

Season's greetings. For your Christmas reading, this blog usually provides a seasonally appropriate post on fast food, including to d...

Last week I blogged about Spinach and the iron fallacy . I analysed an early set of data by Thomas Richardson (1848), who calculated the am...

A few weeks ago, the Natural History Apostilles blog ran a series of posts on the origins of the well-known spinach-is-rich-in-iron fallac...

Over the past century a number of food styles have become internationalized, including hamburgers and fried chicken. Not all of these foods...

Season's greetings. For your Christmas reading, this blog usually provides a seasonally appropriate post on fast food, including to d...

Any history can be represented as a timeline, but a timeline diagram does not necessarily show an evolutionary history. Unfortunately, thi...

Season's greetings! For Christmas last year in this blog we had a Network analysis of McDonald's fast-food , in which I examined...

Since the Christmas feast days are now over, this blog post continues the series on the nutritional characteristics of modern fast-food, wh...

Season's greetings: or as we say here in Sweden: God jul och gott nytt år! In many cultures, over-dosing on food is traditional at this...