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Most farmers who work farmer's markets and farms stands are proud of what they produce. And many want to tell just how they do it.
Posted 11.10.2009 | Impact
Several restaurant chains are offering active duty military free meals or other products on Veterans Day. Applebee's is offering free meals with proo...
Hemi Weingarten | Posted 11.09.2009 | Living
Children are consuming too many calories from sugar. The additional sugar in flavored milk can add up to an extra 5 pounds of body weight over a school year.
David Becker | Posted 11.05.2009 | Living
Go to farmers' markets and farm stands, or buy a share in a CSA. Buy a whole cow. Keep it in your freezer. Share it with your neighbor. You'll put money directly in the pocket of a farmer rather than a host of middlemen.
Ashley Koff | Posted 11.04.2009 | Living
In spite of their pledges to reduce unhealthy marketing to children, the large cereal companies continue to target children with their least healthy products.
HuffPost Investigative Fund | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green
By Christine Spolar, Huffington Post Investigative Fund and Joseph Eaton, Staff Writer, Center for Public Integrity Washington lobbyists have been en...
Joshua Rosenthal | Posted 11.03.2009 | Living
The supermarket can be a daunting place. Aisles upon aisles of choices, how can anyone make up their mind? Here are a couple tips for making "truly smart food" choices in the supermarket.
AP | LINDSEY TANNER | Posted 11.02.2009 | Politics
CHICAGO — Nearly half of all U.S. children and 90 percent of black youngsters will be on food stamps at some point during childhood, and fallout...
forbes.com | Posted 11.02.2009 | Living
Though someone is diagnosed with diabetes every 20 seconds, many Americans lack basic knowledge about the potentially life-threatening disease, accord...
Wall Street Journal | JENNIFER WATERS | Posted 10.31.2009 | Living
In an online survey this summer of 1,200 people about food affordability, conducted by food-industry research firm Technomic, 70% of respondents said ...
Yahoo! News | Steven Reinberg, HealthDay Reporter | Posted 10.28.2009 | Living
While the optimal amount of vitamin D is still subject to debate, a new study finds one thing is sure: over 6 million American children are getting to...
Kathy Freston | Posted 10.27.2009 | Living
I have sought to understand the link between diet and the dreaded diseases that are prevalent in our culture. Following is a fascinating conversation I had on diet and heart health.
Lesley Stern | Posted 10.26.2009 | Comedy
Halloween traditionally marks the end of the harvest season when people begin storing necessities for the long, lean months ahead. Which is exactly the way you should be looking at it now.
Ashley Koff | Posted 10.26.2009 | Living
After helping clients navigate the grocery store aisles and teaching them how to interpret a package, I was convinced that we needed something to truly help the consumer find healthy food.
Medical News Today | Posted 10.25.2009 | Living
It's no wonder that many people feel extra soreness and aches in their backs during winter months -- they're often not getting enough vitamin D. The b...
Stefan Aschan | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living
Dinning out can be a fun experience for those who have a digestive system that processes food properly. But not for all of us.
Susan Dell | Posted 10.23.2009 | Impact
Millions of kids are shortening their life expectancy every day with fast foods, sugar and the lure of video games and TV. I believe there is nothing more important than giving our children the gift of wellness.
Huffington Post | Priyanka Boghani | Posted 10.18.2009 | Living
If you really want to make a change on this planet, a plant-based diet is the easiest, fastest way to get there.
Steven Culbertson | Posted 10.16.2009 | Impact
As the legislative battle over health care reform continues, politicians, health insurance representatives, employers, bus drivers, and teachers debate daily about how this proposed legislation will affect them today. Yet while we "old folks" argue, young people are proactively working to reduce future health care costs by addressing childhood obesity through service-learning.
Brigitte Mars | Posted 10.14.2009 | Denver
Winter squashes are warm, alkaline, and sweet with anti-inflammatory, energy tonic and immune enhancing properties. Here's a recipe for winter squash soup.
Mark Hyman, MD | Posted 10.11.2009 | Living
There might be something wrong with your inner tube, and it could be making you sick and fat.
Hartke Is Online! | Posted 10.09.2009 | Green
Inmates at White Post are enlisted in animal husbandry at Sky Meadow to raise cattle for beef production. The program is a collaboration of several en...
Neil Zevnik | Posted 10.08.2009 | Living
Winter squash, of which butternut squash is simply one of innumerable varieties, tend to be somewhat daunting to the modern cook, and are therefore generally underused and underappreciated.
Roseanne Colletti | Posted 10.08.2009 | Living
The "Smart Choices" labels identify products that a group of manufacturers, dieticians, and academics have agreed qualify as more healthful for you than others. What do these labels really mean?
Posted 10.09.2009 | Impact
Nearly 1,000,000 people in Los Angeles go hungry -- right now, as of this moment. That's one out of eight Angelenos who don't have access to proper nu...
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David Becker | Posted 11.10.2009 | Green