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Do You Need Vitamins And Supplements?

Deepak Chopra | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Processed Food, Micronutrients, Vitamins, Minerals, Nutritional Supplements, Daily Vitamins, Personal Health, Minerals in Food, Vitamins Minerals, Multivitamins, Vitamins and Minerals, Diet and Nutrition, Vitamins in Food, Vitamin C, Wellness, Video, Healthy Living News
Deepak Chopra

A balanced diet of fresh, nutritious foods is still the ideal way to get the vitamins and minerals that your body needs. Still, millions of Americans automatically pop supplements every day, and some go so far as to take massive-dose "mega-vitamins."

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Mind-Boggling Nutrition Guidance? You Betcha'!

David Katz, M.D. | Posted 05.11.2012

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David Katz, M.D.

The National Consumers League, claiming to represent consumers' interests, issued a press release this week announcing they had submitted a complaint to the FDA, asking the agency to banish NuVal from the nation's supermarkets.

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9 Nasty Truths About Your Favorite Foods

Martha Rosenberg | Posted 05.10.2012

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Martha Rosenberg

Many farmers and agricultural professionals are miffed that the days of "it's-none-of-your-business" farming are over. Once upon a time, consumers cared only about the price and wholesomeness of food and didn't worry about -- or videotape -- its origins and "disassembly."

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12 Processed 'Foods' With More Than 25 Ingredients

The Huffington Post | Sarah Klein | Posted 04.24.2012

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While we're all for eating nutritious, whole foods whenever possible, we also know the reasons you reach for that frozen pizza or those pre-made veggi...

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Cooking With Kids: Homemade Pop Tarts

Monica Strawbridge | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Processed Food, Homemade Food, Real Food, Homemade Pop Tarts, Cooking With Kids, Pop Tart Recipe, Pop Tarts, Miami News
Monica Strawbridge

When my kids are wanting "food" like, say, Pop Tarts, I can get them in the kitchen with me and try to show them what a Pop Tart was meant to be in the first place.

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5 Sneaky Supermarket Labeling Tricks

Maria Rodale | Posted 04.22.2012

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Maria Rodale

by guest blogger Tyler Graham, coauthor of The Happiness Diet The Happiness Diet is all about eating the right whole foods for a slimmer, sexier, ...

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Food Stamps: Extreme Makeover

Tamar Haspel | Posted 04.16.2012

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Tamar Haspel

Can we rethink food stamps? Instead of nickel-and-diming the program with endless arguments about what should or shouldn't be paid for, and what is or isn't junk food, let's scrap it altogether and build it fresh.

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Steer Clear of Refined Sugar and White Flour

Carolyn Anderson | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: Processed Food, Whole Foods, Cancer Prevention, Whole Grains, Healthy, Sugar, Cancer, Healthy Living News
Carolyn Anderson

There is evidence that we can help strengthen the body's defenses against cancer by diet and exercise changes. The problem is that the things we should omit from our diets are often things that we enjoy, things that taste good and things that we have on a regular basis.

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Alice Hines

Dollar Stores' Cheap Food Expansion Hits Not-In-My-Backyard Neighbors

HuffingtonPost.com | Alice Hines | Posted 01.11.2012

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With food prices rising and incomes going nowhere, dollar stores are thriving, luring squeezed customers -- many from the middle class -- with discoun...

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22 Foods With Trans Fat

Posted 12.06.2011

Read More: Healthy Eating, health.com, Processed Food, Video, Diet and Nutrition, Fatty Foods, Trans Fats, Healthy Living News

By Amanda MacMillan Trans fat can make food taste good, last longer on grocery-store shelves, and more hazardous for your heart. "Trans fats...

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Meatless Monday: Season To Taste

Ellen Kanner | Posted 02.04.2012

Read More: Processed Food, Tasting, Season to Taste, Cauliflower, Food, Cauliflower Pasta, Meatless Monday, Green News
Ellen Kanner

We've lost the everyday art of cooking, and worse, we've lost the ability to taste our food. We have become estranged from our own tastebuds.

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Are These Food Ads Misleading?

Kitchen Daily | Posted 12.23.2011

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Making fun of commercials for unhealthy food -- any type of commercials, really -- brings to mind that expression "shooting fish in a barrel." From th...

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The Great Miracle Whip Debate: Divine Or Disgusting?

Kitchen Daily | Posted 12.23.2011

Read More: Processed Food, Kraft Foods, Yay or Nay, Video, Commercials, Food Commercials, Ingredient-Reviews, Cooking Reviews, Cooking-Video, Mayonnaise, Food Reviews, Miracle Whip, KitchenDaily News

When you think condiments, chances are you don't think controversy. Ketchup, mayo, mustard: unlike hot button political issues, sandwich spreads don't...

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Eco Etiquette: My Friend Feeds Her Toddler Junk Food

Jennifer Grayson | Posted 11.27.2011

Read More: Processed Food, Food Movement, Adhd, Artificial Food Dye, Green Advice, Dr. Greene, Junk Food Subsidies, Eco Etiquette, Childhood Obesity, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Green Living, Diabetes, Childhood Nutrition, Farm Subsidies, Junk Food, Green News
Jennifer Grayson

Send all your eco-inquiries to Jennifer Grayson at eco.etiquette@gmail.com. Questions may be edited for length and clarity. My good friend and I have...

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The Bologna Hypocrite: Why You Should Sometimes Just Not Read The Ingredients

Katie Workman | Posted 10.04.2011

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Katie Workman

There are a large number of foods that once your kids know of their existence, there's no turning back. Anything sugary, of course, and anything in the chip family, gum...and then there's bologna.

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Please Pass the Salt!

Susan Yager | Posted 07.05.2011

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Susan Yager

Champagne corks will be popping at the Salt Institute, and fast food executives and food processors will be joining the party. A new study published i...

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Food Fight: Beating Processed Food Marketers at Their Own Game

Sherri York | Posted 06.17.2011

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Sherri York

"But, Fruit Loops have fruit," my son said. With that uttering, I pulled out the big guns.

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If Only You Knew

Robin Quivers | Posted 06.12.2011

Read More: Fruits and Vegetables, Processed Food, Vegetables, Food, Diabetes, Heart Disease, Robin Quivers, Health Eating, Fat Sick and Nearly Dead, Forks Over Knives, Food News
Robin Quivers

All of us process food differently. Just because the food doesn't make you fat doesn't mean you're getting the nutrients you need or expelling the things in food that will make you sick.

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Spam Four-Way: Does The Iconic Canned Meat Hold Up?

Salon | Aviva Shen | Posted 06.09.2011

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Is there a food more widely mocked than Spam? Its name was long rumored to stand for Stuff Posing as Meat. It's synonymous with Internet junk. (No, ki...

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What's The Problem with Processed Foods?

Kerry Trueman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Kerry Trueman

McDonald's seems congenitally incapable of shifting from its default formula of highly processed sweeteners, fats, and, for good measure "11 weird ingredients you would never keep in your kitchen."

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Process or Perish: Praise for Packaged Food

Karen Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

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Karen Kelly

Families can't always whip up a from-scratch meal every night. What kinds of canned, boxed or bagged items do you have in your pantry? And can you live without them?

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Changing the Food Landscape, One Person at a Time: Part One

Karen Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Processed Food, Meal Planning, Prison Gardens, Produce, Food Co-Ops, Timothy Tucker, Prison Food, Lunch, Organic Gardens, Frozen Food, Institutional Food, Food Safety Bill, School Lunch, Salvation Army, The Family Dinner, Laurie David, Food News
Karen Kelly

There is a lot of innovation going on in the realm of school lunches, none of it having anything to do with food safety bills or mandates from lawmakers. In fact, government is where the least amount of innovation is happening.

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"Food Rules": A Completely Different Way To Fix The Health Care Crisis

Michael Pollan | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Pollan

I set out to collect and formulate some straightforward, memorable, everyday rules for eating, a set of personal policies that would, taken together or even separately, nudge people onto a healthier and happier path.

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How Ultra-Processed Foods Are Killing Us

The Atlantic | Posted 05.25.2011

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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...

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PHOTO: Pre-Chicken Nugget Meat Paste, AKA Mechanically Separated Poultry [Updated]

Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Processed Food, Chicken, Chicken Nugget Paste, American Food, Mechanically Separated Chicken, Mechanically Separated Meat, Advanced Meat Recovery, Chicken Mcnuggets, Meat, Mechanically Seperated Chicken, Chicken Nuggets, Food News

The photo above [SEE UPDATE BELOW] has been extensively passed around recently, and for good reason: it's a peek into the rarely-seen world of mechani...

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