Quest Birthday Cake Cookie Dough Popcorn Recipe
SUCCUMB TO QUESTIFIED BIRTHDAY CAKE COOKIE DOUGH POPCORN. Somewhere along the way, society decided birthday cake should only happen once a year. We re…
Quest Loaded Taco Jalapeno Poppers Recipe
SUCCUMB TO QUESTIFIED LOADED TACO JALAPENO POPPERS. With winter in full force it’s time to ask yourself: are you meeting your recommended daily allo…
Quest Mexican Street Corn Fritters Recipe
SUCCUMB TO QUESTIFIED MEXICAN STREET CORN FRITTERS. Last week… there was elote. It changed everything. But it wasn’t enough. The people demanded m…
Quest Mexican Street Corn (Elote) Nachos Recipe
SUCCUMB TO QUESTIFIED STREET CORN ELOTE NACHOS. It’s January. And the holiday reverie has given way to the subtler joys of carpools, overdue perform…
Bariatric Surgery: Risks in the OR and Beyond
The extent of risk from bariatric weight-loss surgery may depend on the skill of the surgeon. After sleeve gastrectomy and Roux-en-Y gastric bypass, t…
Bariatric Weight-Loss Surgery and Mortality
Today, death rates after weight-loss surgery are considered to be “very low,” occurring in perhaps 1 in 300 to 1 in 500 patients on average. […]
How Healthy Are Baruka Nuts?
How do barukas, also known as baru almonds, compare with other nuts? There is a new nut on the market called baru almonds, branded as […]
Can Vegan Fecal Transplants Lower TMAO Levels?
If the microbiome of those eating plant-based diets protects against the toxic effects of TMAO, what about swapping gut flora? “Almost 2,500 years a…
The Science Behind Why We Feast During the Holidays—and Why It’s Totally Fine
I didn’t even like the pie. It was too sweet and store-bought. Still, there I was—standing barefoot in the kitchen, fork in hand, jeans already un…
Is Aflatoxin a Concern?
Is “toxic mold syndrome” a real thing? What do we do about toxic mold contamination of food? In recent years, mold has been blamed for […]