How Veg-Friendly Is Your Town?
You know when Bill Clinton adopts a vegan diet, something's going on in the zeitgeist of American food culture. Meat sales dropped 12 percent between 2007 and 2012, likely due to the increasing...
View ArticleAre Your Organic Eggs Legit?
When you're frying up those organic, free-range eggs on a Saturday morning, visions of hens running around outside, pecking at bugs and happily clucking about under the sun may come to mind. The...
View ArticleThe Nickel Pincher: Make Your Own Homemade Energy Drinks
Why buy expensive energy drinks that could send you to the hospital when the perfect energy supplement is right in your kitchen cupboard? Apple cider vinegar, that old standby thought to cure...
View ArticleAnd the Worst Restaurant Meal in America Is…
It's no secret that most fast food puts you on the fast track to poor health. But the latest findings of a lab test analyzing restaurant foods brings a whole new meaning to the label "worst restaurant...
View ArticleNew to Your Butcher Counter: Non-GMO Meat
Shopping for meat and eggs doesn't come easy to ethical omnivores. Certified-organic meat and eggs may come from animals that weren't treated with antibiotics or fed grains from genetically modified...
View ArticleFDA Takes On Arsenic in Apple Juice
The Environmental Protection Agency sets a limit for the amount of inorganic arsenic (the carcinogenic kind), in drinking water. Now, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing a similar...
View ArticleThe Great Diet Soda Myth
Want to lose weight, ward off diabetes and still drink something that tastes sweet and fizzy? Grab a diet soda! After all, they're sweetened with zero-calorie sweeteners that give you the sugar fix you...
View ArticleThe Top 10 Things to Do with Leftover Beer
By Jim Koch, brewer and founder of Sam Adams If you have a surplus of beer—maybe leftovers from a BBQ or a summer party—here are some suggestions on how to take care of that beer (and ideas for...
View ArticleCongressmen Attempt to Save Honeybees
Congressmen can bee friendly, too. A pair of Democrats, Reps. John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Earl Bluemenauer (D-OR), introduced the Saving America's Pollinators Act of 2013, legislation that if passed,...
View ArticleScientists: Farm Chemicals Causing Massive Bee, Bat Deaths
A class of insecticides called neonicotinioids appears to be decimating wildlife, including bees, bats, and amphibians, according to a new multinational study from researchers from the UK, Australia,...
View ArticleThe Nickel Pincher: Homemade Healthy Sweeteners
If you're looking for an easy way to shed some pounds, kick the added sugar out of your diet. Americans swallow a whopping 13 percent of their daily calories from added sugars, which adds up to about...
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6 Recipes for a Gluten-Free Summer
Recipes adapted from Flat Belly Diet! Gluten-Free Cookbook The second half of your summer doesn't have to be loaded with all of the refined carbs typically found at summer cookouts. All of those...
View ArticleHow Dirty Is Your Farmer's Market Chicken?
Know your farmer, know your food, right? Particularly with meat, having direct contact with the people who raised the animals you're eating means you can get a whole host of information you'd never...
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FDA Tackles Imported Food Safety
by Marion Nestle, PhD, MPH, Paulette Goddard Professor in the department of nutrition, food studies, and public health at New York University and author of Eat Drink Vote The FDA has finally released...
View ArticleChipotle: Now Going GMO-Free AND Vegan
As if we needed another reason to love Chipotle, the feel-good fast-food chain has just debuted a dish that can appeal to the growing no-meat and no-dairy crowd. And it's not a boring salad. And it...
View ArticleThe Nickel Pincher: 6 Veggies You Never Knew You Could Pickle
When most people hear "pickle," they think "cucumber," but you can pickle just about any vegetable, including extra summer squash or zucchini (even the ones that got too big; just peel and trim out the...
View ArticleFDA Passes First-Ever "Gluten-Free" Labeling Guidelines
The gluten-free foods market is big and getting bigger. It's increased 30 percent in just four years, and every major food company now markets gluten-free foods, usually at a higher cost than their...
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3 Incredible, Healthy Zucchini Recipes from The Fabulous Beekman Boys
Zucchini—it's like a plant on steroids. Plant one and you can practically feed your entire neighborhood with the vegetables it produces. In fact, zucchini is so prolific, it's garnered its own holiday....
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The Truth about Food Additives
by Marion Nestle, PhD, MPH, Paulette Goddard Professor in the department of nutrition, food studies, and public health at New York University and author of Eat Drink Vote I was invited to write the...
View ArticleThe Nickel Pincher: DIY Old Bay Seasoning
One of my earliest memories of a special party meal was sitting perched on the radiator on the "back" side of the dining room table when I was just a few years old, stuffing myself silly with shrimp...
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