LONDON (Reuters) – Some baby foods contain as much sugar and saturated fats as chocolate biscuits or cheeseburgers, a British food pressure group said on Monday picked by cactushair 7 months ago

Relies on speeding up a process that happens naturally.

Two great links, I find, on top of the article to articles combating junk science. picked by henkspaan 2 years ago

Whether because exercise makes us hungry or because we want to reward ourselves, many people eat more — and eat more junk food, like doughnuts — after going to the gym. picked by Bornbad 4 months ago

Formulated especially for your little member.

I've been waiting years for this product*

*Not really but I like it now! picked by Colt45 1 year ago

An outback farmer is on a mission to identify a strange ball of twisted metal - purported to be fallen space junk - which mysteriously turned up on his remote property. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

Natalie Cox is a junk food junkie, consuming 7,500 calories a day. picked by Bornbad 3 years ago

The extraordinary true story of a Malawian teenager who transformed his village by building electric windmills out of junk is the subject of a new book, The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind. picked by nateebiinature 2 months ago

NASA calculates that a random person is nearly 30,000 times more likely to be injured or killed by falling debris than to win the Power Ball lottery jackpot. picked by deepchill 2 years ago

There is a great deal of junk out there, zooming along at speeds of up to 25,000mph. At such a velocity, a mere flake of paint can do considerable damage to a satellite. Nasa frequently has to mend windows on its spacecraft because of penetration by minuscule flying objects. picked by kakana 4 months ago

It used to be called the final frontier - the great unknown only the most prized and powerful technology could conquer.

But now, as these images show, the space beyond our atmosphere has become yet one more place blighted by man-made litter, with potentially devastating results. picked by AutumnLotus 2 years ago

If you're like the most of us, what you do to your junk is just throw them in one bin. Of course, there are also these people that segregate plastics from this and that.
And then, there's upcycling

My favorite is the bird feeder. picked by pandorarin 8 months ago

Marketers are generally a persistent lot, but they're beginning to think that bombarding your mailbox might not be worth it. picked by muppet 1 year ago

Loading up on fat and sugar actually makes you smarter! picked by dreamering 2 years ago

This small, sixteen-page pamphlet is produced to put inside the postage-paid, business-reply envelopes that come with junk mail offers. Every envelope collected is stuffed with the pamphlet and mailed back to its original company. picked by Bornbad 2 months ago

Krautrock is one of the most 'undersung' western musical genres. Most people haven't heard of it, but most people's favorite bands are influenced by it. This is my first of many posts intended to 'hip' the unschooled on arguably the most influential musical genre from the 60's/70's, save the British Invasion... picked by DrNothing 2 years ago

Is there a conspiracy to gather all your information? Are you being tracked? Your spending habits downloaded in a database. Notice your junk mail has increased?

Feeling paranoid now? picked by suebe 2 years ago

Pilots eating junk food perform better on flight tests than those eating healthy. I didn't believe it either! picked by meggysue 3 months ago

McDonalds prepared a FAQ site, where anyone can submit any question and they will post it with an answer. Case in point: " at school we were asked to reaserch what was put into your food and the information that we found was discratious!! you put feathers into your shakes, you put cows eyeballs into your beef as part of your 100% beef, you coat the fruit into bleach, CANT YOU SEE THAT Y... read full post picked by jaxomlotus 2 years ago

Police have banned a woman driver's car from the road - for being too untidy.

The Vauxhall Astra was so full of junk, magazines, old clothes and even bits of furniture that they could barely see the driver as it roared down a motorway in Dusseldorf, Germany. picked by AutumnLotus 11 months ago

Free. It's the magic word for an ever-expanding wealth of downloadable software and online services. Free doesn't necessarily mean good, however, and hunting for freebies can mean sifting through a lot of junk.

Whether it's the best web app or the best download, it's all here and it's free for the taking. picked by buddha 2 years ago