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Time is running out: our $5000 giveaway ends 10/31! What will you do with the cash? Chick here to enter today. Credits to:Everyday Food Blog – MarthaStewart.com

Photo: Flickr It’s no wonder that kids are blowing up like balloons more every year. According to Kids Health, the percentage of overweight children in the United States is growing at an alarming rate–one out of three kids are now considered overweight or obese. And even worse, a new study released by the National Cancer [...]

As sugar-sweetened drinks are a major contributor towards America’s obesity epidemic, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Governor David Paterson have proposed to the Department of Agriculture that they be excluded from the list of products that can be purchased with food stamps, known as Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). They propose that for [...]

A big part of healthy eating is being prepared to do it.  When we’re hungry, stopping to figure out what to eat, then getting it, can take way more time than many of us have.   Hence the popularity of fast food. Try these tips to make your own fast food, healthy eating style.   They revolve [...]

Photo: oceandesetoiles For the folks who won’t buy an electric car, put solar panels on their roof, or turn off the lights when they leave the room, there’s a painless solution that can help us all reduce our carbon footprint — stop Read the full story on TreeHugger Credits to:TreeHugger

In days of yore, which is really only a few years ago, good food was often defined by black and white thinking.  Whether we liked something or not didn’t enter into the picture at all. “Good” usually meant something that was not too high in calories, low in fat, didn’t contain any sugar and had [...]

photo: Peter Blanchard via flickr Interesting GM food media intersection in the past two days: Reuters reports that an Italian court has fined a farmer for Read the full story on TreeHugger Credits to:TreeHugger

If you’re a regular reader of this blog or follow my twitter account, you probably know that I’m a big believer of eating healthy and following a raw food diet. On a daily basis, I personally eat as many raw seeds, nuts, fruits and veggies as I can, all uncooked and unprocessed. I eat about [...]

Image credit: Kevin Lallier (Creative Commons) Back in 2008, the UK’s chief scientist warned that the food crisis would bite before climate change, and from the debates around food versus fuel to the impact of climate change on food prices, it’s long been known that our economies are extremely vulnerable to disruptions to the farmin… [...]

It’s been a long day, it’s getting late, everyone’s starving, and the fridge is bare. What to do? If you’re like many people, you have you favorite Chinese restaurant’s number on speed dial. Just about everyone likes Chinese food. But as a person who’s watching your diet, you might wonder just what lurks in that [...]