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Your Child's New Healthy Role Model
Even if you've never heard of Reed Alexander, don't worry. Chances are, your teens and tweens are big fans from his days as Nevel Papperman on the Nickelodeon sitcom iCarly. These days, though, Reed...
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 ArticleA New GMO? Seriously?
Growing a new genetically modified (GMO) food using a chemical labeled by the Environmental Protection Agency as a "probable human carcinogen" is now legal, thanks to a quiet late-August approval by...
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Cook with Your Kids, Create Family Memories
by Reed Alexander, author of the new kid-friendly cookbookKewlBites: 100 Nutritious, Delicious, and Family-Friendly DishesIn my family, travel has always been the heart and soul of "spare time." Our...
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Why You're Eating the Wrong Things
Environmental advocate Kerry Trueman interviews public health nutritionist Marion Nestle about her new book,Eat Drink Vote: An Illustrated Guide to Food PoliticsKerry Trueman: Has politics always had...
View Article9 Sneaky Sources of GMOs
If you're trying to avoid foods with genetically modified organisms (GMOs), you probably already keep a sharp eye out for foods made from corn, canola, and soy, all of which have had bacteria or genes...
View ArticleWhy is There Mercury in Fish? Blame Bacteria—and Coal
It's ironic that the one of the healthiest foods in the world is also one of the most polluted. But such is the case with seafood, which can have such high levels of industrial chemicals and heavy...
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How to Get Your Kids to Love Quinoa
Quinoa is one of those wonder-foods that's so nutritious, it's garnered its own year. The United Nations dubbed 2013 the International Year of Quinoa in order to spur farmers around the world to take...
View ArticleThe Nickel Pincher: How to Make Sourdough Starter
Before commercial dried yeast was invented, bread bakers just saved a bit of the finished but unbaked dough from each batch and mixed it with more flour and water to start the next batch. They didn't...
View ArticleAre You Suffering from "False Hunger" Pains?
Adapted from the New York Times bestsellerThe Hunger Fix: The Three-Stage Detox and Recovery Plan for Overeating and Food Addiction by Pamela Peeke, MD, MPH, assistant clinical professor of medicine at...
View ArticleThe 2 Most Misleading Words on a Food Label
You might think that "use-by" and "sell-by" dates stamped on food packages are there to protect you—from spoiled eggs, from rotten meat, from rancid milk. But guess what? Like most reassuring-sounding...
View ArticleChipotle's Haunting New Anti–Factory-Farming Ad
Since the company's founding in 1993, the Mexican food chain Chipotle has introduced the U.S. to the concept that fast food can be made in ways that pay attention to animal welfare, using meat from...
View ArticleCommon Bug Killer Could Scramble Kids' Brains
Killing off cockroaches and other perceived pests could come at quite a cost if the findings of a new study looking at chemicals known as pyrethroids holds true. New data from Canadian researchers,...
View ArticleLooks Like a No-Go on GMO Labeling in Washington State
A year-long effort to get voters in Washington state to enact a law that would require genetically modified foods to be labeled appears to have failed, based on early voting results from the state....
View ArticleHow Filthy Farms Contaminate Your Organic Chicken
When you spend extra money on organic chicken, you'd like to think you're getting something that's cleaner and healthier than the factory-farmed stuff in the next bin over. But that's not always the...
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Fresh Picks: The New Bad Guy in Wheat, and the Other "Other" White Meat
• Gluten may not be the only bad guy in wheat (Refinery 29) • The new "other" white meat is not what you think (NPR’s The Salt) • Avoid food spoilage and waste by getting your fridge ready for the...
View ArticleFDA Finally Moves to Ban Trans Fats
Better late than never, as the saying goes: Twenty years after scientific studies began revealing the damage that trans fats are doing to America's collective cardiovascular health, the Food and Drug...
View ArticleIs "Natural" Food an Endangered Species?
Big Food just spent upwards of $22 million in Washington state to prevent voters there from approving a ballot measure that would have required genetically modified ingredients (GMOs) in food from...
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5 GMO-Free Thanksgiving Dessert Ideas
The food writer Michael Pollan once wrote, "Don't eat anything your grandmother wouldn't recognize as food." Sadly, most of the food that now adorns Thanksgiving tables, particularly the dessert table,...
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Your Gluten-Free Thanksgiving
The culinary temptations of the holidays are hard for anyone who's on any kind of diet, but if you're trying to stick to gluten-free foods, the holidays can be especially taxing. People who avoid...
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