Tag: Diet
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Balance Bar Launches World's First Rainforest Alliance Certified Energy Bar
Get your dark chocolate fix with less guilt. Balance Bar introduces a new energy bar featuring sustainably farmed cocoa beans.
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From Pardoning Turkeys to Black Friday, How Did Thanksgiving Get So Off Track?
This is how we now give thanks: Systematically slaughtering 46 million birds, offering a pardon to one or two of them as a token gesture of our magnanimousness. And then being told to shop like there's no tomorrow.
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It's Time to Stop Marketing Food to Kids
That the food industry has zero interest children’s health was made painfully clear last year.
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8 Recipes for Low-Sugar Sorbets
Enough with the loads of sugar already, these recipes rely on the sweet vibrant flavors inherent in fruit rather than an excess of added sweeteners.
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Can You Go Vegan For 30-Days?
Vegan lifestyle expert Colleen Patrick-Goudreau's new online program helps participants cut out meat.
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Global Meat Consumption Falls Slightly in 2011
However, meat production is up, albeit slightly and less than in previous years.
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The Real Bears Video Satire Takes a Stab at the Soda Industry
Real bears video takes a stab at the soda industry in an effort to curb consumption.
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McDonald's and Coca-Cola: An Unhealthy Alliance
New York's ban on giant-sized sodas is expected to be approved Thursday. Predictably, the soda lobby has come out swinging, complete with an industry front group called, “New Yorkers for Beverage Choices.” More like "Soda Pushers for Continued Profits."
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Why PepsiCo is Fighting GMO Labeling in California
The nation’s largest peddler of soda and junk food has the most at stake in ballot measure.
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Study: Sustainable Seafood is Usually the Healthiest
If the fish is sustainable, then it is likely to be healthy to eat too.
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How Produce Industry BigWigs Are Putting School Children at Risk: A Plea to Michelle Obama
United Fresh Produce Association Foundation says it’s “proud to be a Founding Partner of the Let’s Move Salad Bars to Schools Initiative.” I thought the First Lady should know this trade group is responsible for killing a vital produce testing program.
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NatureBox Delivers Healthy Snacks to Your Door
Unhealthy snacks make you fat. This subscription service sends you the healthy ones, and donates meals to starving children to boot.
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Your Burger Just Got a Little Safer, Thanks to Uncle Sam
After years of debating, petitioning, rulemaking, and outright stalling, this week the federal government is finally implementing new requirements for testing E. coli in ground beef.
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More Than Reasonable: NYC Adds Soft Drinks to List of Health Hazards
According to Coca-Cola , in the 1950′s, the “traditional” bottle size was 6.5 ounces. New York’s proposed 16-ounce limit is roughly 2.5 times higher. Seems more than reasonable.
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India Will Be World's Largest Beef Exporter in 2012
It certainly seems surprising at first, that a nation widely knowing for revering the cow would be a beef exporter at all. It all comes down to what you call beef.
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Our Meals are 4 Times Larger Than in the 1950s (Infographic)
See the CDC’s new infographic to discover just how absurd abnormal portion sizes have become.
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How to Fight Fast Food in Your Own Backyard
Check out this new report on how we can all fight the influence of fast food in our lives and communities. After all, we can't wait for the Feds to do it.
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New Study: Sugar Sabotages Learning and Memory
A UCLA study is the first to show how a diet high in fructose slows the brain, hampering cognitive ability.
