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If obese/overweight patients with diabetes Type 2 are helped to get fit, lose weight and control blood glucose levels, their long-term outlook improves significantly, according to a report published in Archives of Internal Medicine. Addressing cardiovascular risk factors and blood glucose control is vital in preventing the long-term complications that are linked to diabetes Type [...]

After blogging about it last week, Carla and I attended  Harvest in the Square, a culinary benefit featuring 60 New York City restaurants, 24 wineries and 1,200 food-loving people! Check out the pictures of our favorite foods and sights below. Back Next 1 of 7 1 Some pumpkin-carving inspiration: Looks like everyone here has food on [...]

Food in Jars Last summer we broke the story about BPA epoxy finish on the lids used in home canning. We acknowledged that it was not a huge problem, as the lids are a small proportion of interior surface area of the bottle, and that there is a head space between the food and the [...]

Original image from Wikipedia Commons A life at sea proved not to be in the cards for a tiny burrowing owl that had made its home on one of the world’s most luxurious cruise ships. The protected bird was found to have moved into the ship’s artificial golf course while it was docked in Port [...]

Photo via ~jjjohn~ You like to-may-toes and I like to-mah-toes Up until recently, botanists believed that there to be over one million types of flowering plants on Earth, but now about 600 thousand of those species my soon be cut from the list — but extinction’s not to blame this time. It turns out that [...]

Ever wonder what happens to the food Martha and her team make for the show? Thomas Joseph, Assistant TV Chef for the Martha Stewart Show, wrote us a note and sent these beautiful pics giving us a peek at the impressive stuff they do with their leftovers: “On Friday, Martha made poached pears with Philip [...]

Image credit: Allie_Caulfield/Flickr The magnitude 7.0 earthquake that shook Christchurch, New Zealand, earlier this month caused damage and threatened the life and livelihood of many of the city’s residents. Now, as the recovery begins, there is at least one small cause for celebration: A rare kiwi, whose incubator was rocked by the quake, has hatched…. [...]

September is the best of summer and fall all at once. This week our CSA provided us with bell peppers, potatoes, celery and yellow beans (both new this week), mesclun, a head of leafy lettuce, tomatoes (regular, heirloom, and orange and purple cherry varieties), and potatoes. For fruit we received peaches plus some new items—pointy [...]

lots of round and rosy produce Our vegetables from the CSA have definitely moved out of the leafy-greens stage and into tomatoes, with their complimentary corn, basil, and—new this week—garlic. One cucumber, a couple of squash and peppers, and some carrots rounded out our veggie share. For fruit, this week we were inundated with peaches [...]

Elderly and middle-aged women who eat a small amount of chocolate every week have a reduced risk of developing heart failure, Swedish researchers reported in Circulation: Heart Failure, an American Heart Association journal. The study, which lasted nine years, involved 31,823 middle-aged and elderly Swedish women – it examined the relationship between high-quality chocolate consumption [...]