If you are a baker, baking soda is a staple item in your kitchen pantry. Baking soda (also known as sodium bicarbonate) is often used as a leavening agent in doughs and batters to make them rise and expand. How does it happen? When baking soda is mixed with an acid (e.g. vinegar, lemon juice, etc.), it makes small bubbles of carbon dioxide...

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When a woman is pregnant, she is often advised by a doctor to be extra cautious with her food and drug intake as well as cosmetic products applied to the skin. It is because during pregnancy, whatever the mother takes internally or externally could reach the fetus through the placenta. The same is also true for breastfeeding mothers. The mother’s daily diet can...

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