September is National Food Safety Education Month! Food safety is often overlooked for many reasons – it can be inconvenient, time consuming, or more likely, many people are simply uneducated as to how food should be prepared and stored. This lack of education is actually quite common. Unless you took a home economics class in […]
Unsure if you have food poisoning? Sometimes we can tell when we’ve eaten contaminated food – maybe the food tasted “off” or stale, had an unusual smell or was a bit past the expiration date, but you chose to consume it anyway. Other times, it may not be as clear if food is contaminated. Food […]
Abdominal pain may be one of the more ubiquitous gastrointestinal symptoms a person can experience. Most people can easily recall a time when they had a pain in their stomach, perhaps even accompanied by other symptoms like nausea, cramping and bloating. Because abdominal pain can be due to a wide number of causes, it can […]
