Archive for the ‘Fun Food Facts’ Category

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: , , , , , ,   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.  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: , , , ,   Posted in: Fun Food Facts, Health  2 Comments

Lobbyist Run Non-Profit Scams

Rachel Maddow is pretty awesome.  She tells it like it is.  Listen to her dish it out against the Center for Consumer Freedom.  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.  Essentially, there are a [...]

October 5, 2009  Tags: , , , , , ,   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).  There are many pros and cons to this issue that need to be studied further before any actual implementation.  Plus, there are other avenues of curbing soda consumption that should be considered.  For instance, ending subsidies [...]

September 28, 2009  Tags: , ,   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: ,   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: , , , , , , , , ,   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: , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Fun Food Facts, Health, Politics  4 Comments

Nagging Questions Gives You The Answers

I found a great food trivia column at chow.com called Nagging Questions. Searching through the list of questions author Roxanne Webber has already asked, I found myself thinking Yeah, why is that? a lot. Questions that had not ever nagged before, suddenly were. There were questions like how does packaged guacamole stay [...]

June 24, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Fun Food Facts  No Comments

Watermelon, It’s Your Summertime Viagra …Err…Refreshment

Let’s start off the summer right by reminding ourselves how good watermelon tastes. It’s about now that watermelon is transforming from dry pink mush into lush, juicy pieces of cool refreshment.  There is even more reason to love watermelon because it:

is concentrated with a ton of antioxidants
helps reduce inflammation
may help prevent asthma when eaten
is [...]

June 17, 2009  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Fun Food Facts, Health, Science & Technology  One Comment

How To Curb An Outbreak

Excerpted from Mental_Floss (Volume 5, Issue 3):
In 1918 and 1919, one-fifth of the world’s population contracted influenza, and nearly 50 million people died as a result. That’s more fatalities in a single year than the 14th-century Black Plague caused in four. Even scarier, at the time of the flu outbreak, public health officials [...]

May 12, 2009  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Fun Food Facts, Health  No Comments