What’s not appetizing about the idea of adding a few parasitic worms to your diet? No… really!? Because that very question could soon become a reality in Germany once the Federal Office of Consumer Protection and Food Safety decides on whether or not the pig whipworm (Trichuris suis) parasite is approved for sale in health …
Bieryoga: German Exercise Craze Mixes Yoga with Beer
Since starting a regular yoga routine, I’d sometimes feel a little scandalous with my glass of beer sitting within arms length to provide occasional hydration, but now it turns out that my little guilty pleasure is nothing more than an already existing exercise craze, Bieryoga, from the good old land of beer …
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A court in France issued a ruling against safety certifier TÜV on Friday, ordering the German company to pay an estimated 20,000 woman who received faulty breast implants that the group was in charge of approving for the now defunct Poly Implant Prothèse (PIP), the French company responsible for manufacturing and …
Sources: The Local
Photo: FDA
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It can be hard to keep up with all the varying diets out there, but veganism isn’t one that is bound to be here today, gone tomorrow. With any diet where you deviate from the norm, there are bound to be nutritional concerns, but a new paper published by the German …
Sources: German Nutrition Society, NPR