Geopolitics of Food for 2012: Tidbit of the Day
As we enter 2012, we continue to face a troublesome food crisis with increased demand for food and falling harvest figures. The world’s population has nearly doubled since 1970 and it is expected to reach 9 billion by midcentury. This rise along with the consequences of global warming with a drop in water supply and [...]
Industrial Organic: TidBit of the Day
I know someone who stopped using Tom’s of Maine when they were bought out by Colgate-Palmolive. For those of you who buy – and often pay premium prices – for certain brands because of social/ethical reasons as well as health, what do you do when you find out a beloved small brand has been bought [...]
Marion Nestle on French and U.S. Perspectives on Food & Health: TidBit of the Day
Enjoy reading Marion Nestle’s books and blog? Here’s a chance to see her in person at a one-day workshop at the French Embassy in NYC! ******* ‘Its the time of year again when food is never far from our thoughts’! On Monday, December 5, 2011, the French Embassy will host a one-day workshop on “French [...]
How to Feed 7 Billion People: TidBit of the Day
You’ve all heard the news: we now are 7 billion+ on the same sized Planet Earth whose natural resources are being rapidly depleted. Which begs the question: how do we feed everyone? Our friends at the World Food Programme have collected 7 must reads about this issue. We encourage you to take a look – [...]
Healthy Eating Plate: TidBit of the Day
The intrepid Marion Nestle alerted readers to an updated version of the USDA’s MyPlate. Experts at the Harvard School of Public Health came up with the Healthy Eating Plate to offer more specific guidelines in how to follow the original. What do you think? Helpful? Check out Harvard’s explanation and Marion Nestle’s piece.
Food = Peace: Tidbit of the Day
A new map of food security around the world demonstrates quite clearly how a lack of access to food often leads to conflict in that country. Here is a great analysis on the data by The Guardian’s environmental columnist, Damian Carrington, Food is the Ultimate Security Need.
TidBit of the Day: The Caveman that Cooked
Raw food enthusiasts have long heralded the benefits of eating only raw food, uncooked, like “they did in the caveman days.” Only, according to researchers and writers, the cavemen who cooked were the cavemen who survived. Harvard researchers recently published evidence in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that cooking, started by an [...]
How to Get Your Kids to Eat Broccoli: TidBit of the Day
A fascinating study shows that babies’ palates are influenced in utero. Flavors, from garlic to vanilla, are passed from mother to child through the amniotic fluid. Babies then show a preference for the flavors that were first introduced in the womb. So, if you want your kids to eat broccoli, eat broccoli when pregnant! (Mom, [...]
Food Before Medication with ADHD? TidBit of the Day
According to a new study in The Lancet, 64% of children diagnosed with ADHD are actually reacting to a hypersensitivity to food. The study looks at ADHD as symptoms, not the cause – sort of like eczema is a symptom of other underlying causes like a hypersensitivity to a type of food. In five weeks, [...]
Beefing Up McDonald’s (in Japan): TidBit of the Day
A good friend of mine forwarded an article published by the Wall Street Journal regarding GINORMOUS burgers, at McDonald’s in Japan. A few months ago, Mcdonald’s Holding Co (Japan) Ltd. announced the roll out of its Big America 2 burger campaign. This campaign features 4 different (and hefty) burgers named after 4 U.S. locales: the [...]
