Eating Healthy: For The Rich?
A healthy diet is expensive and could make it difficult for Americans to meet new U.S. nutritional guidelines, according to a study published Thursday that says the government should do more to help consumers eat More...
FDA Still Waffling Over Definition Of ‘Gluten Free’
The Food and Drug Administration is taking a new look at how to label foods “gluten free.” The agency proposed standards in 2007 for labeling foods that don’t have the cereal protein but they were More...
Food Companies Find Way Around Junk Food Ad Ban
Companies that have pledged not to market unhealthy food and beverages directly to children may be turning to product placement on television shows instead of traditional ads to target youngsters, a new study showed. This More...
Do Frozen Meals Free Us Or Turn Us Into Barbarians?
TV dinners have evolved. These days, they’re no longer embarrassing, just for kids, or synonymous with loneliness or junk food … or TV. Or with incompetence, sloth, or child abuse. When TV dinners first More...
7 Coffee Myths
I really love the whole experience of making coffee: the aroma of a freshly brewed pot wafting through my house, the smell of it as I raise a cup to my lips, the warmth of it filling my body and the flavor—oh, More...
Happy Meals To Include Less Fries, More Fruit
We all know what’s always included in a McDonald’s Happy Meal: a burger or chicken nuggets, french fries, a toy, a soft drink. And fruit? McDonald’s announced today (June 26) that it will automatically More...
Study Finds Sugar Doesn’t Melt
Melting sugar for candy always feels like a vaguely arcane process. You put the raw white sugar in a pan, turn up the heat, and wait for something to happen. Sometimes it goes fast, sometimes it takes forever. There More...
To Salt Or Not To Salt?
Scientists have been debating sodium intake’s relation to health for decades. One study says salt reduction is the key to hypertension reduction; another says salt only harms African-Americans, the elderly More...
The Best And Worst Proteins For Your Health And The Planet
To come up with the carbon impact, the EWG looked at the food’s full “lifecycle”—including the water and fertilizer to grow feed crops, transportation of the food and even the amount of food that’s wasted. The More...
Chipotle Reveals Big Plans
Chipotle currently only offers breakfast in one of its outlets, in the Dulles International Airport. Customers have said fantastic things about the offerings; one enthusiastic blogger called the Dulles Chipotle’s More...