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Chinese food imports: The news is going from bad to worse
First, of course, there was the pet food. Horrible, tragic thing, that. Now, the news is getting worse. Much worse. It’s our food, too.
Let me tell you about it …According to the The New York Times, “In Food Safety Crackdown, China Closes 180 Plants.”
It seems that inspectors in China found “… more than 23,000 food [...]
Eat more, lose weight (and it’s an almost vegetarian diet, which is best of all!)
Well, here’s a bonus. It turns out that eating healthier will help you lose weight.
Here’s the scoop …
A study in this month’s edition of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition involved 97 women with an average weight of about 200 pounds. Half went on a low-fat diet; half were on the same diet plus water-rich [...]
A drink to your health! The healthiest way to enjoy a cup of tea.
We all know that tea is supposed to be good for you. In fact, there are antioxidants in tea that could help protect against cancer and heart disease.
But did you know that the way you brew your tea makes a difference? It does.Have a nice cuppaAccording to the BBC (and if I would trust any [...]
How to find a food label even if the food is nowhere to be found
I get food press releases all the time. And every time a release touts “nutritious” or “healthy” or even the ambiguous “good-for-you!,” I read it.
And for every release I read, I am looking for one thing and one thing only: The food label. Why? Because the food label, with it’s list of ingredients and nutrients, [...]
Acai, the wonder berry. You’ll never guess where you can find it now.
In a coffee shop. Yep, you heard me right. Caribou Coffee is jumping on the Acai bandwagon (a little late, mind you, as I, for one, have been periodically adding it to my smoothies for a year or two, now) with their new Acai Smoothie.
But what is Acai? And what else is in the Caribou [...]
How to know precisely what nutrients, from calories to fats, are in your restaurant meal
Sure, you can read a food label at the supermarket, but what do you do at the restaurant if you want to know what nutrients were in your meal?
You look at the receipt.
The receipt? Yeah! Let me explain.There is a new receipt system called “Nutricate” that provides nutritional information on your receipt. This receipt tells [...]
Fruit and vegetables and herbs, oh my!
This time of year, I’m itching to get my fingers dirty. Dirty in earth, that is. Because, for the last month of so, I’ve been itching to grow something, anything.
The only problem is, I don’t have a garden.
Sure, I can buy fresh fruit and vegetables and herbs at the market. But it’s not the same. [...]
Fast food: Advertising versus reality. Can you just guess who will win?
I’ve been through all sorts of food phases in my life. As a kid, bologna was the best thing since, well, sliced bread. As a university student, fast food was my food of choice. Afterward, I became a vegetarian. Then I married a meat and potatoes guy and that was the end of that.
Fast forward [...]
Flexitarian’s unite! AGAIN! With a book and a food recipe and …
Remember I wrote about Flexitarian’s? Ah, you remember. How flexitarian is just another word for almost vegetarian. Sorta silly word.
Well …
It turns out we are not the only ones to be privvy to this odd little word. Yes. The secret is out. So out, in fact, that a James Beard Award winner is using the [...]
Vegetarian starter kit: Free guide on how to become a vegetarian
So you’re worried about the potentially deadly E. coli bacteria in the 5.7 million pounds of beef sold to consumers recently. And you’re thinking now might be a good time to go vegetarian.
But you’ve got lots of questions. Like where you’ll get your protein. And what about milk and other dairy products. And what if [...]