How to Eat Healthy

Suddenly it seems that chain restaurants like Applebee's, T.G.I. Friday's, Olive Garden, and Bennigan's are almost as ubiquitous as the Golden Arches....

Every summer, it gets so freaking hot outside that even when we're hungry, food doesn't seem very appetizing. The heat makes us feel lethargic and la...

If you've cloaked your newly added 8lbs under heavy sweaters, oversized sweatshirts, and long pants all winter, it's time to buck-up and take those pounds by their nasty love handles.

Around 1975, food manufacturers started replacing sugar in soft drinks, cereals, and baked goods with another sweetener: high fructose corn syrup (HFCS).

For many of us, Passover is just like Thanksgiving or Christmas - a day to get together with our families and stuff ourselves silly. The food may be ...

Somewhere in the remote Nicoyan peninsula of Costa Rica, a 101-year-old named Panchita is making you look bad. By the time you finish your morning blog rounds, she has already cleared brush, chopped wood and made tortillas from scratch.

What does a $20 donation do for Slow Food? A $20 donation helps us identify one more person who gives a damn about good food. In a lot of ways Slow Fo...

Our warped agricultural policies have created a two-tier food chain in which fresh produce has become a luxury for affluent consumers while low-income families fill their fridges with nutritionally bankrupt processed crap.

What we eat is not just a simple matter of self-care versus self-abuse and indulgence, but an issue of the common good, the productive functioning of society, and of individual commitment to health as a global, social responsibility.