The Food Files

Nikki talks with an expert about foods we can eat to keep ourselves healthy and pain free; explores foods used as medicine over the years.

Nikki explores commercially available different types of water, energy and sports drinks to see what is safe and what does damage.

Exploring the many, many questions about oils; olive, vegetable, mono saturated, saturated, refined, unrefined, extra virgin, virgin, butter vs. margarine.

Nikki explores several questions about sugar as it relates to consumption, calories, weight, Diabetes, white sugar, brown sugar, raw sugar, honey, maple syrup, fructose, glucose and high fructose corn syrup.

Nikki investigates all the truth, lies, mysteries, necessities, alternatives, benefits and dangers of milk.

Nikki explores everything about meat; the good protein, bad fat, frozen, minced, meat markets, farm conditions and humanity involved.

Nikki investigates the food preferences of children, as well as parental efforts to keep them on healthy diets.

Nikki evaluates regional old wives' tales to differentiate fact from fiction.

This episode explores the science, fallacies and danger behind the multi-billion dollar popular diet industry.

Searching for healthy snacks; exploring difference between rice and grain snacks vs. potato chips.

Food Files investigates the secret tricks of the advertising trade; food photos that look too good to be true made with elements like paint, glue and foam.

Investigating the mysteries of milk.

Investigating the handiness and hazards of microwaves.

We eat food from around the world, but do we know what conditions it has been growing or manufactured in?