Tag: Diet - Page 5
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10 Fresh, In-Season Vegetables the East Coast Should be Eating Now
We know that "seasonal produce" seems like a distant fantasy when your neighborhood is covered in 30-plus inches of snow -- but East Coasters, listen up: Vegetables native to your region and season do exist. And not only that, they're often as sweet, te
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10 Fresh, In-Season Vegetables the East Coast Should be Eating Now (Slideshow)
We know that "seasonal produce" seems like a distant fantasy when your neighborhood is covered in 30-plus inches of snow -- but East Coasters, listen up: Vegetables native to your region and season do exist.
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6 Hot Celebrity Women Getting Down and Dirty on the Farm
With more and more emphasis on local, organic eating and growing your own vegetables -- it's not just amateur chefs that are starting up their own gardens: Celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow, Reese Witherspoon, Nicole Kidman,
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How to Start a Community Supported Bakery (Video)
The Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) model has widened its scope of late. From a community supported kitchen, through a grain-growing, sail-powered CSA, to community supported beer and baking, there's a lot to be said
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Fast Food Advertising is On the Rise -- With a Focus on Minority Youth -- While Kids Continue to Grow Fatter. What's Wrong With This Picture?
It's definitely not news that America's children have an obesity problem and that it's largely due to fast food and junk/snack foods—nor is it a surprise that fast food restaurants use aggressive and
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Restoring Food Security for Everyone Will Take Action on Many Fronts
Today there are three sources of growing demand for food: population growth; rising affluence and the associated jump in meat, milk, and egg consumption; and the use of grain
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A Picture Is Worth... Want To Be Thinner & Healthier? Live Near Farmer's Markets & Eat Your Fruit
Another facet of the US' national weight crisis and horrendously skewed food production and distribution system: MindBodyGreen is highlighting an interesting infographic showing the linkage between body mass
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Record Amounts of Fish Consumed in 2008 - 80% of World's Fisheries Fully Exploited or Overfished
New data in from the UN FAO on the state of the world's fisheries. The verdict: Global consumption of fish reached an all time high in 2008 (the stats in these sort of reports are always a few years behind...) and about one-third of all the world's
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Lower the Thermostat to Lower 60s, Lose Weight!
Super-sized meals and sedentary living don't seem to be the only contributing fat-factors present in American and UK lifestyles. New research published in the journal Obesity Reviews points to a link in increasing average
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Sodexo Starts Meatless Mondays Nationwide
The Meatless Monday campaign has just gotten a big boost: Institutional mega-feeder Sodexo has joined the campaign and has started to roll out and publicize vegetarian options on its
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Alternative Home Remedy: Peppermint Oil to Relieve IBS
We 'Huggers with our aspiring clean, fiber-rich diets probably aren't as likely to experience the daily (yikes!) Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) that some millions of Americans do, according to The New York Times.
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Eating Vegetables Makes You More Attractive, Too
You look as good as you eat. Researchers at the University of Nottingham revealed in a recent study that eating vegetables makes you appear better looking to others. Despite the many
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Pepsi Reduces Landfill Waste by 88% in Two Years, While Growing 15%
Leave aside for the moment the health effects of Pepsi's products, and your rightful concerns about highly-processed food in general, while reading how much Pepsi has done to reduce its environmental impact... Last Friday
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Losing Weight = Toxic?
Here's a frustrating bit of news for the day: losing weight could be driving the toxins from fat cells (where they're stored) into your bloodstream—and making you sick.Because certain pollutants are fat-soluble, including
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Quinoa's Popularity Boon (& Bust) for Bolivia
I'm happy to have read beyond Yahoo News' deceptively positive headline, "Quinoa's popularity boon to Bolivians." I've had an interest in the ancient Andean super grain since it hit the health scene for its amino-acid- and
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Doctors Group Sues USDA For Ignoring Vegetarianism
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine filed suit last week against the US Department of Agriculture and the the Department of Health and Human Services in US District Court for the District of Columbia, alleging
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Soda Taxes Won't Actually Cut Obesity, But Stopping Subsidizing Sugar & Corn Might: Study
It's tempting to think that in the fight against rising obesity rates in the US simply taxing soda (or pop, depending on your upbringing) will help slow our collectively expanding waistline. A new piece by
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Coverage of Factory Farming & Animal Welfare Has Decreased US Meat Demand
This is really pretty encouraging: A new study from Kansas State University shows how increased media coverage of animal welfare issues in recent years has led to a decreased demand for meat in the United States.
