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Will drinking too much beer give you a beer belly? A study says that the phenomenon is a myth. The Telegraph reports that nutritionist Dr. Kathryn ...
No sooner did the furor over lean, finely textured beef (a.k.a. "pink slime") die down than we have another one over sushi tuna....
It is my pleasure to introduce you to new books recently published by two fascinating, well-respected eating experts -- Barbara Rolls and Marion Nestle.
ALBANY, N.Y. — "Pink slime" just went from a simmer to a boil. In less than a week this month, the stomach-turning epithet for ammonia-treated ...
Figuring out which fish to eat these days is a "mo'brainer;" you need a pocket guide or a smartphone app just to help you remember which species are overharvested or contaminated. But now the truly savvy seafood shopper evidently needs a DNA test kit, too.
By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger As the Great Blizzard of 2010 blanketed New York City, most residents were blissfully unaware that th...
We have two agricultural systems in this country, both claiming to be good for farmers and both claiming to be sustainable.
In the current issue of the online Journal of the World Public Health Nutrition Association (of which I am a charter member), Carlos Monteiro, a profe...
Marion Nestle, author of Food Politics is in my kitchen today. Find out what her favorite frozen treat is, her favorite childhood snack, and how she stays connected.
Counting calories as part of health care reform--who knew? But apparently it's there on page 455. There will now be a national effort at posting calorie counts in chain restaurants.
Obviously sugar content is not the only factor in a food's nutritional value (and not all of these have added sugar), but it can be illuminating to see the relative amounts in the foods we consume.
Join me and NYU nutrition professor/author Marion Nestle tonight at 8pm EST for a live 30-minute webcast. Marion is a fearless champion of food safety and healthy eating for everyone, whether you've got two legs or four!
If yoga teachers fail to recognize the damage being done around them then we are losing an essential community of voices who have to help reverse this agricultural monoculture.
I had the pleasure of interviewing 12-year old Orren Fox of Newburyport, MA who happens to keep 25 backyard chickens.
Struck with the urge to build a garden but with no land to grow it on, Ian Cheney and Curt Ellis (co-creators of the film King Corn) of Wicked Delica...
As I read about baby formulas and jars of salsa laced with who-knows-what, I was left slack-jawed.
Dr. Nestle: "While waiting for all this to sort out, here's what to do: buy local from someone you know personally and think is worth trusting."
