Archive for the ‘Fun Food Facts’ Category
“New” Diet Reduces Bodily Toxins in Just 5 Days
Call Now to Find Out How You Can Lose Your Toxins and Feel Great in Just 5 Days!
Just kidding. You don’t have to call, simply read on:
I don’t mean to proselytize, but a new study just demonstrated one of the powerful effects of changing to a vegetarian diet: significantly reduced bodily levels of harmful environmental [...]
June 11, 2010
Tags: change, food, food safety, Health, veganism, vegetarianism Posted in: Fun Food Facts, Health, Science & Technology 
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Cupcakes for Gamers
To get back in the swing of blogging, I thought I’d start off with something easy and fun. To ring in the New Year, this group of people combined their two passions (which I happen to share): cupcakes and games. They made individual cupcakes honoring 100 different games that ran the gamut from board games [...]
June 6, 2010
Tags: blogs, heroes, innovation Posted in: Fun Food Facts One Comment
PSA – Wash Those Pre-Washed Salad Greens
Recent research from the Consumer Reports Magazine found that those bagged salad mixes, most claiming to be pre-washed and ready to eat, aren’t as clean as you’d like them to be. Thankfully, what they found wasn’t e coli, salmonella or anything as dreadful as that. Instead, in their sample of 208 bags (representing 16 brands) [...]
March 13, 2010
Tags: agriculture, education, factory farms, Health, heroes, waste Posted in: Fun Food Facts, Health, Science & Technology One Comment
Martha Stewart To Have A Vegetarian Thanksgiving
Jonathan Safran Foer has been talked about and to in nearly every major media outlet since his book Eating Animals came out. Where Michael Pollan’s Omnivore’s Dilemma tiptoes around the treatment of factory farmed animals, Eating Animals blows the doors wide open on the modern day “farm”.
In an email to Erik Marcus of vegan.com, Jonathan [...]
November 22, 2009
Tags: change, farmers, food, food event, heroes, veganism, vegetarianism Posted in: Fun Food Facts, Health No Comments
Great Food Politics Blogs
Parke Wilde teaches graduate level courses in food policy and statistics at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University. Â Along with some of his graduate students, he keeps the U.S. Food Policy.
He recently wrote a sort of ‘top ten’ list of food policy blogs for blogs.com:
In this list, he looked beyond [...]
October 7, 2009
Tags: blogs, education, food, Health, policy Posted in: Fun Food Facts, Health 2 Comments
Lobbyist Run Non-Profit Scams
Rachel Maddow is pretty awesome. Â She tells it like it is. Â Listen to her dish it out against the Center for Consumer Freedom. Â Really, that should be “consumer freedom“:
If you are further interested in what a crackpot Richard Berman is, you can find out about him and his expertise at bermanexposed.com. Â Essentially, there are a [...]
October 5, 2009
Tags: Health, heroes, innovation, marketing, obesity, soda, sugar Posted in: Fun Food Facts, Health, Politics No Comments
Soda Tax Revenue Projections
I’m not advocating for or against soda taxes at this point (though, earlier I was definitely against the idea). Â There are many pros and cons to this issue that need to be studied further before any actual implementation. Â Plus, there are other avenues of curbing soda consumption that should be considered. Â For instance, ending subsidies [...]
September 28, 2009
Tags: pepsi, soda, sugar Posted in: Fun Food Facts, Health One Comment
Food–In Space!
In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the moon landing, it’s high time we celebrate what keeps astronauts going on those trips.
First of all, the one thing that should be celebrated in conjunction with food in space is that microgravity does not affect natural swallowing processes–something scientists were rightly worried about before John Glenn (the [...]
August 12, 2009
Tags: food event, innovation Posted in: Fun Food Facts, Science & Technology No Comments
Lab-Grown Meat, The Future Is Soon
Flipping to the resources page of the New Harvest website, a non-profit whose mission is to promote and advance meat substitutes, you find twice as many popular articles on the subject of lab-grown meat as there are technical articles on it. Test-tube meat, in vitro meat, cultured meat or whatever name you call it may [...]
July 20, 2009
Tags: agriculture, bacon, Barack Obama, change, cows, farmers, food event, green, greenhouse gases, innovation Posted in: Fun Food Facts, Science & Technology No Comments
Food Inc., The Reviews Are In
Sorry, there are no theaters within 20 miles of my zipcode that are playing Food Inc. I will have to get it on Netflix when it comes out. In the mean time, I have watched the trailer and read a bunch of the reviews:
There is the short and sweet review by Marion Nestle, who describes [...]
July 1, 2009
Tags: agriculture, change, farmers, food event, Health, marketing, nutrition, policy Posted in: Fun Food Facts, Health, Politics 4 Comments
