Can eating the right foods improve your brain power? What about your chances of getting pregnant? Can you eat yourself to a longer life and could your culture improve your chances? We all need to eat, but there's more to food than mere survival. Food profoundly affects our bodies and minds, and can shape whole societies and cultures. Science of Food takes a light-hearted look at the science and psychology of food, looking at different cultures to...

In this modern world we are often disconnected completely with the production of the food we eat. But, in a backlash against the highly processed mass produced food, people around the globe have begun to eat locally.

Certain foods can improve performance, both mental and physical. Carbohydrates increase physical stamina and energy, and eating in the morning can do wonders for attentiveness and concentration throughout the day.

We look at food for the extremes. Whether it is finding water in the desert, eating in arctic, or what to bring to outer space, we learn how those who live in extreme conditions survive.

Where humans are concerned, food is a social activity. Studies continue to suggest that the family that eats together, stays together. But one can go further: how and what we eat dictates culture and status.

Current estimates put the origin of cooking to over a million years ago. And many believe it is cooking food that fueled the growth of our brains, as cooked foods deliver protein more efficiently to our brains.

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