Tag: healthy
Processed People? Frank Food!: TidBit of the Day
Are you a processed person or are you a frank foodist? Check out this new documentary, Processed People. Overfed and undernourished. They ask, “how did we get here and what do we do?” Check out the trailer: Eat frank food!
H20: All Tapped Out
Water, water, everywhere. But how much do we pay attention to how we drink or shower or wash our cars? Do you refill your water from the water cooler at the office and think you’re safe from BPA because you use a recyclable, aluminum water bottle? We’ve written about water for last year’s Blog Action [...]
Hara Hachi Bu: Homemade Pate
To follow up on ZomppaPatty’s tips for increased longevity, I echo reading The Blue Zones.There have only been a few books that changed my lifestyle and this is one of them. So I have some news to share. Big news. I am now a weekday vegetarian.* *Some exceptions: i.e. birthday meals at the Brazilian steakhouse, [...]
Guest/Time to Retire the USDA’s Dietary Guidelines?
We are delighted to welcome guest contributor, Michele Simon! Michele Simon is a public health lawyer specializing in industry marketing and lobbying tactics. She is the author of Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back, and research and policy director at Marin Institute, an alcohol industry watchdog [...]
Food histories, philosophies and complexities
Has healthy eating today become synonymous with reading Michael Pollan books, being a vegan or paying a lot for “organic” food? The answer to this is complex. There is much to be said of popular journalists like Pollan whose work has reached many in the U.S. who otherwise may not have become conscientious about the [...]
TidBit of the Day: Fresh or Frozen?
Sometimes we assume that fresh is always better. But is it always? A USDA study showed that bags of fresh broccoli and spinach lost much of their nutrients just by being exposed to the lights in a grocery store. Vegetables that are flash frozen (not soaked in sodium BPA-lined cans) could retain some of those [...]
It’s Like Buttah: Moving, Baking and Battling
Moving is hard. It is not like buttah, meaning smooth and easy. You know how there are optimistic people who say that certain things get easier the more you do them—like exercising or public speaking? Well, moving across the country, time and again, is not one of them. I have this romantic notion of myself as [...]
TidBit of the Day: GreenOn!
You know those great sites offering special deals – I have definitely gotten some great deals in my area (i.e. spa treatment for 50%, yoga classes for $2 each). Here is a great one for those wanting to “green” their life even more. Sign up on GreenDeals and get some great deals that are eco-friendly [...]
TidBit of the Day: How to Find Frank Food
Darya Pino over at Summer Tomato created this wonderful flow chart to help find frank food at the supermarket. Of course, it isn’t always this simple, as “real food” has now been sometimes disguised (i.e. if the five ingredients are: corn syrup, Yellow Dye No. 5, refined sugar, gelatin, and flour, not quite frank food….) [...]
Frank Food: Dal for the Ages
Welcome, 2011! Can you believe it? I can’t. Over the last several years, the issue of what is real, authentic food has surfaced, oftentimes loudly with great passion on all sides. I loved the discussion y’all brought on about my post about being a snob and eating organically. It definitely isn’t easy, and sometimes, just [...]
