Tag: Diet - Page 13
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Even the Rich are Taking Home Made Sandwiches for Office Lunches
You know that the recession is hitting everyone when the Financial Times reports on the joys of bringing your lunch to work. This is the business newspaper, similar to the Wall Street Journal, that has a monthly luxury
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From the Forums: Meat Tax?
Member Rick Wild is asking if since many are for taxes that discourage behaviors that produce carbon and pollution, does it then make sense for a tax on meat products?
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War-Time Advice is Still Relevant
The Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising is a little museum that displays packaging of brands over the last hundred years. It's interesting because packaging in the old days was very simple and straight forward, with none of
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Will Obama Change the Way America Eats?
Sustainable food and agriculture watchers have been on a roller coaster ride ever since Barack Obama was given the nod by the American people. Soon after the election there were hopeful, if misguided, calls for Michael
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Germans Say Nein to the Schnitzel
Germans are being urged to say "nein, danke" ( no thanks) to wiener schnitzel*. The government is urging people to return to their old pre-war habits of eating meat only for special occasions. Now it is considered
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Battery Eggs to be Outlawed
Sainsbury's is set to become the first of the four largest supermarkets to stop selling eggs from battery hens. Starting February 5, Britain's third largest grocery chain will sell only eggs from uncaged birds. Some of the
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Beans, Beans, the Magical Fruit: How To Eat Them Without the Flatulence
I was chatting with my cousin about some health and weight problems she was having and I was stunned to discover that she almost never cooks vegetables for her family dinner. Too much trouble she said. I suggested that not only should she add
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Fast Food Leaves the Most Litter
It turns out that garbage from McDonald's is the most prevalent litter found on the streets of England. Next comes rubbish from Greggs, a bakery, then KFC and Subway. With a soupcon of abandoned coffee cups, kebab and fish and
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Nine Ways To Get Your Vegetables
I'm wondering how many of you made resolutions to eat a healthier diet this year. And how many of you are actually doing it, one week into the new year? For those of you who are taking your first steps toward becoming vegetarian, you may have resolved
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Hold the Phone! 9 Do It Yourself Takeout Favourites
We all know the scenario where you come home from work tired and the kids are hungry and fractious. You reach for the phone and order their favourite pizza or Chinese food. But there are compelling reasons to forgo the telephone and make those things
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Green Your Workouts, The City of Milan, and Feed 8 Friends for Under $100
:: Our newest How to Go Green guide gives you tons of tips on how to make your workouts not only good for your health, but also for nature.
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Wild Food: Seven Herbs To Celebrate The Return Of Green
Sirerdrick made a good point in the comment to Bonnie's post about Food Foraging, noting that in Japan, you can find a lot of wild foods, including bamboo shoots, fern saplings, and ginkgo nuts. Actually, today, January 7 is a
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Food Foraging Lessons for the Recession
Food foraging has moved from being something out there on the fringe to an almost mainstream hobby. Or necessity, if things continue the way they are going. Given the mood of these times, more and more people are taking it up.
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How to Go Green: Workouts
At this point, all those holiday cookies, cocktail parties, and lavish lunches are a distant memory--and the reality is that you're (at least) five pounds heavier than you were when you last stepped on the
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Green Tea Protects From Alzheimer's, More Studies Show
Photo Credit: Kanko Research with green tea and Alzheimer's continues to show that the antioxidant properties in green tea (Camellia Sinensis) may in fact have the ability to decrease production of beta-amyloid, which is the protein which forms plaques
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Incredible Edible Food Revolution is Happening
What happens when two women in a small town realise that vegetables could be planted in the flowerbeds of the local parks and along the edges of the town's cemetery. A
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Superfood Mixes: For Those On the Go But Not the Faint of Heart
Recently I sampled several Superfood products from Amazing Grass. Superfood - those green, vitamin-packed food and drinks that look like someone just cut a swatch out of your front lawn, juiced it and served it up to you in
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Six Green Hangover Remedies
Some might say if you have a hangover, you might already be green (not the environmental kind of green, ahem). But if you want to cure that throbbing headache from last night's Christmas party or holiday get-together, take a
