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Food and Health

The Antibiotics Hidden In Your Meat

New York Times | Posted 09.07.2012 | Green

Eighty percent of the antibiotics sold in the United States goes to chicken, pigs, cows and other animals that people eat, yet producers of meat and p...

The Dark Side Of 5 Fake Foods

Mother Nature Network | Posted 08.06.2012 | Green

With the introduction of the freaky new imitation chicken, Beyond Meat, the sci-fi future of food is coming to bear. But can we trust food made in the...

10 Overrated Health Foods

Darya Pino, Ph.D | Posted 05.30.2012 | Healthy Living
Darya Pino, Ph.D

Like it or not, we tend to believe whatever we are exposed to in the media and in advertisements. In nutrition, this usually means that as a society we all follow the same diet fads, glorifying some foods over others in the quest for better health.

Diet, Diabetes And Paula Deen: The Case For Loving Food That Loves Us Back

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 03.21.2012 | Healthy Living
David Katz, M.D.

Pretending that food doesn't matter to health is at best denial, at worst a serious delusion. We should not mortgage health to pay for culinary delight, any more than we should give up culinary pleasure to purchase health. We can love food that loves us back.

Afraid To Eat: 6 Ways to Face Your Fear of Food

Lisa Turner | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Lisa Turner

Somewhere between the happily ignorant bliss of a child, and the ever-vigilant eye of a nutrition-savvy adult, there lies a middle path, one that doesn't include worry, stress and fear.