Tag: Diet
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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.
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More Empty Recommendations on Junk Food Marketing to Children
Institute of Medicine Gives Big Food Another Deadline – or else!
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Meat Industry Grossly Outspends Animal Rights, Veg Groups
Check this out: Those red dots are the advertising budgets of the big meat producers and meat industry groups, just the advertising budgets; the green dots are the entire budgets of animal welfare groups.
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Why I Am Not Attending or Watching "Weight of the Nation"
If you couldn't make the Weight of the Nation conference in Washington DC this week, don't worry, HBO has a fear-mongering mini-series starting on the 14th. The trailer alone almost brought me to tears, seeing all the awful stereotypes of fat people.
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USDA Wants to Double Poultry Processing Speed, Killing More Birds & Injuring More Workers
Already, just one processing plant kills 78 million chickens each year. The USDA and Big Meat want to nearly double the speed that the production line moves.
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Tell President Obama You Want an End to Factory Farming!
Last October Farm Sanctuary held the first national Conference to End Factory Farming (TreeHugger was one of the media sponsors). Now they want to put some pressure on the President, via this petition.
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Is It Time for Organic, All-Natural, Artificial Blueberries?
If blue cubes of partially hydrogenated oils and dextrose can sell, what could marketers do with organic, all-natural, artificial blueberries?
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BPI's Response to Outrage Over Ground Beef? 3 Governors and a T-Shirt
Beef Products Inc took its best shot at making up for its silence during weeks of public lashing over what has been dubbed “pink slime,” an additive in ground beef made through a high-tech process that BPI invented.
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McDonald's Now Using Goats to Exploit Children
To call McDonald’s latest advertising campaign aimed at children cynical doesn’t give enough credit to the fast food giant and its ad agency, Leo Burnett.
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Berries Keep the Brain Young, New Study Reports
A new scientific review confirms that eating berries can help prevent memory loss and other forms of mental decline.
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From Gnocchi to Toffee Pudding: 8 Gluten-Free Recipes from the Blackbird Bakery Cookbook
Who says wheat-free can't mean indulgent? Best-selling cookbook author Karen Morgan offers up irresistible (and also vegetarian) main courses, snacks, and desserts.
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Football Practice Deaths Triple Over Past 15 Years, as US Warms & Players Get Bigger
Don't be alarmed, a truly tiny percentage of football players die in practice. Rather take it is an example of dietary and climatic changes having perhaps unlikely effects.
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Study: The Scent of Rosemary Can Make You Smarter
Researchers have shown for the first time that blood levels of a rosemary oil component correlate with improved cognitive performance.
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Is PepsiCo The Master of Corporate Spin?
PepsiCo utilizes an array of public relations maneuvers to convince Americans to keep buying its products, despite copious health advice to the contrary.
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A Teaspoon of Sugar Might Make the Medicine Abound
Without sugar-coating, the white stuff we inhaled as kids, in excess, takes a toll far more toxic than cavities.
