Janice Howowitz

Yum, that's me crunching on a food substance that arrived in my mouth by way of industrial engineering. Food scientists manufactured it to hit bliss points - a perfect balance of salt, sugar and, for a flawless mouth feel, just the right amount of fat.

I've been known to feel deathly ill when the reading on the thermometer is … 99.3. To me, it feels like a raging fever, but to doctors, not so much.

I’m going to tell you a story which will make you think I’m something of a nut. It’s about CT scans which use radiation to see your insides vs MRI’s, which don’t. They use magnetic fields and radio waves.