Source: monbiot.com
Omega-3 oils are essential to good brain function, but they can only be found in fish and world wide fish stocks are dwindling very rapidly. It now appears that a strain of algae may solve this problem.
Source: time.com
How two communities are working to serve kids fresher, healthier food--and then actually get them to eat it.
Source: Harvard University Gazette
Evidence is piling up that boosting vitamin D intake may help prevent breast cancer. One major study of 1,760 women found that the higher the levels of vitamin D in a woman's blood, the less the risk of breast cancer.
Source: angryman.ca
Can't be worse than McDonald's can it it? "Imagine going to the grocery store only once every 6 months. Imagine paying less than a dollar per meal. Imagine never washing dishes, chopping vegetables or setting the table ever again. It sounds pretty good, doesn't it?
Source: theglobeandmail.com
A new report suggests restaurants should dish food and fight fat at the same time, meaning menus with more fruits and vegetables, smaller portions and better nutritional information ...
Source: George Mateljan Foundation
How Healthy Nutrition Builds Health, Starting With the Cells (Graphics)
Source: timesunion.com
What would Dr. Weil say?
Source: theeagle.com
Two College Station school cafeteria workers were fired and another resigned after the trio was linked last month to selling stolen beer on the A&M; Consolidated High School campus, district officials said.
Source: cnn.com
This is a fun and interactive series of reports discussing health via nutrition and other factors in America.
Source: newstarget.com
Conventional medicine, as practiced today, is actually pretend medicine. Doctors and drug companies pretend to make patients healthier by giving them drugs. The FDA pretends to protect the safety of the public.
Source: news.yahoo.com
Mushrooms are good for you in so many ways.
Source: thedenverchannel.com
Colorado Governor Bill Owens vetoed a bill that required that half of the offerings in every school vending machine be nutritious. He reasoned that politicians should examine their own vending machines in the State Capital before trying to legislate what other people eat.
Source: seattletimes.nwsource.com
Short article about organic foods and USDA labeling. Despite the fact that shoppers pay, on average, 50 percent more for organic food, organic products are one of the fastest-growing categories in the food business.
As a person in my early 20's, I've begun to take note of how amazing my body is.
Source: WebMD Blogs
If it's as easy as giving up soda, latte's and sugary drinks, shouldn't we?
Source: newyorker.com
"In New Orleans, the poverty rate in 2004 was twenty-three per cent, a fact that George W Bush noted in his address from New Orleans’ French Quarter on September 15th, when he said, “We have a duty to confront this poverty with bold action.” (Six months later, the Bush Admin
Source: news.yahoo.com
Scientists at the Paterson Institute at the Christie Hospital in Manchester, England found that omega-3 fats might help to inhibit the spread of prostate cancer during the early stages of the disease.
Source: The San Fransisco Chronicle
This lady is smart, political, and a foodie--I like her.
Source: nytimes.com
Nutrition education programs for parents would do a better job than large and politically popular feeding programs in fighting the rampant malnutrition that is stunting the development of more than 100 million children worldwide, a new World Bank report says, finding that a lack o
My visit to Ruby Tuesday last night was the first in probably 10 years. Dinner was actually pretty good on both sides of the table, and the dessert I was coerced into splitting was even better.
Source: nytimes.com
For all the talk about protecting children in America, too many of our youngest are threatened by a steady blast of industrial-strength advertising on children's television. Some ads, like those for toys and games, mostly threaten the family budget.
Source: gao.gov
Breastfeeding: Some strategies used to market infant formula may discourage breastfeeding; state contracts should better protect against misuse of WIC name. GAO-06-282, February 8, 2006
Source: fitness-web.com
While there certainly is a lot of hype around sports drinks like gatorade, it looks like their is also a fair bit of science involved as well.
Amidst the usual mob of protesters and tear gas, WTO ministers met last month in Hong Kong to discuss – among many things – the crippling global affect of low-cost export commodities from the US made possible by mammoth farm subsidies.
Source: news.bbc.co.uk
Eating more than the recommended five portions of fruit and vegetables a day can cut risk of stroke, a study says.