Tag: Diet - Page 7
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Can Mom's Low-Sodium Diet Determine Baby's Sex?
With an overpopulated planet a serious concern, you're likely not trying for a that perfect little bundle of feminine joy made of sugar and spice and everything nice. But if you are in the off chance, and still
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Can Transparency on Calories Be a Model for Change?
A new beverage labeling initiative that is starting this fall provides an interesting example of how businesses can change without government mandates or laws. Launched by the American Beverage Association (ABA), Clear on Calories provides a standard
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Genetically Modified Crops Banned Around the World (Slideshow)
While some farmers (and governments) support the use of genetically modified crops for their higher yield quantities and pest and weed resistance, others point out that the long-term effects of these gene adjustments just
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Genetically Modified Crops Banned Around the World
Farmers all over the world are throwing down political and environmental battle lines over the cultivation of genetically modified (GMO) crops. On the pro side, supporters claim that changes to the genetic structure of a plant can help it resist weed ki
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Obese Orangutan Finds a Healthier New Home
Oshine the orangutan has a bit of a weight problem. After being kept as a pet for 13 years, lazing around and eating junk-food, the portly primate ballooned up to 220 pounds - but she should soon be on the right track to a
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Canadian Supermarket Chain Loblaws' "Grown Close to Home" Foods...Aren't
Way back in 2007, TreeHugger Lloyd went to Loblaws, Canada's largest supermarket chain, looking for fresh local food in July and he found: cherries.
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High Blood Pressure? 10 Food Swaps to Bring it Down (Slideshow)
Credit: Thinkstock/Getty Images High blood pressure, or hypertension, caused by stress, aging, a poor diet, not enough exercise, obesity, smoking or just plain genetics, can have lasting -- and negative -- effects on everything from your heart to your
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High Blood Pressure? 10 Food Swaps to Bring it Down
While blood pressure raises and lowers naturally, sustained elevation -- otherwise known as high blood pressure, or hypertension -- can damage your heart, kidneys, and even brain. More than 65 million Americans have the condition -- caused by stress, a
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Food Foraging is a Local Business Opportunity
For many, one of the joys of travel is eating: the restaurants, the markets, trying out new foods and finding new tastes. With all the interest in local and regional foods, dedicated foodies are having fun finding esoteric and
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7 Ways Food Allergies Could Actually Be Good for You -- and the Earth
A food allergy diagnosis can range from being a minor inconvenience -- like having to read labels to check for food dye -- to a major health issue (think extreme, lethal allergies to milk, eggs, and nuts).
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It's Time to Consider Our Food's Nitrogen Footprint Too - Shrinking Ocean Dead Zones Depends On It
We're pretty accustomed at this point, those of us in the green community at least, of talking about the carbon footprint of our food. But what about the nitrogen footprint? Considering that large effect nitrogen
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Tyson Foods May Have a Sustainability Report But It Doesn't Mean Factory Farming is Ever Sustainable
I normally don't take direct aim at other people's reporting, but a recent post on Tyson Foods new sustainability report over at SmartPlanet made me wonder if I was living on that same planet as the author. What's sure is we have differing definitions
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7 Miracle Spices With Huge Health Benefits (and Big Flavor)
Spice up your life with these herbs, roots, and plants that benefit your health as much as they do your taste buds: From keeping your heart healthy and your arteries clear to reducing pain and warding off cancer, these everyday flavors
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Deconstructing the Twinkie
The Twinkie is, perhaps, the most iconic highly-processed snack food American culinary ingenuity has ever devised. Originally invented in the 1930s as a means to utilize strawberry shortcake cream-filling machines when strawberries
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Wretched Excess Dept: A Loaf of Bread for $30
We love our daily bread. But celebrities must love it even more, for this one costs a lot of dough: £21 (that's $30 US). When Liz Hurley, Damien Hirst and Prince Charles are all eating it for breakfast and others are
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A Buddhist Monk's Vegetarian Diet to Minimize Chemical Exposure
Image via: Wonderlane/Flickr Weekday vegetarians ready to ramp up their meatless-ness may find inspiration in this recently released study in Environmental Health News. For five days, 25 study participants dwelled in a Buddhist temple and adopted a
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Mentos Eruption Powers Vehicle, Freshens Breath
Mentos ... The Freshmaker also could be known as Mentos ... The Fuelmaker. You can make a car move with nothing but Coke Zero, Mentos, and some super sudsy science. If you've spent any time on the Internets, you've no doubt seen the wonders of Mentos
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The Truth About Kids and Vegetables
"Might as well say it straight up," Ed Bruske says in Grist, "Kids don't like vegetables." Does it make sense, then, for school systems to mandate more of the
