Archive for the ‘Fun Food Facts’ Category
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: blogs, education, food, trivia Posted in: Fun Food Facts 
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Watermelon, It’s Your Summertime Stimulant …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. Â 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: food, Health, innovation, nutrition, trivia 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
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(Re)Name That Flu!
NPR is taking up Fiona Feck’s challenge to have the public resolve the swine flu/H1N1 virus name controversy.
According to The New York Times: Â ”Maybe, she suggested, there could be a competition, and members of the public could come up with a better name.”
What thou asks of the internet, thou shalt recieve. Â From Twitter (#NameThatFlu) [...]
May 5, 2009
Tags: bacon, food event, innovation, marketing, trivia Posted in: Fun Food Facts 2 Comments
Eat Like A Man Diet
I thought I would focus on something completely unrelated to the swine flu, but still on the topic of “pigs”.
There is a consensus that dieting is totally a female thing. Weight Watchers and the like are missing out on 50% of the population. How to get them? How about by telling them that [...]
May 1, 2009
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America’s Finest News Source Recognizes Food Troubles
How does America know when it is facing a real crisis? As a nation, who do we turn to for insightful analysis and cool-headed criticism? Who do we trust when it comes to reporting the whole truth and nothing but the truth? Why, only the expertise of The Onion, heralded as “America’s [...]
April 1, 2009
Tags: food event, food safety, innovation Posted in: Fun Food Facts No Comments
FDA Food Recalls on Twitter
If installing your own CDC widget to monitor recent food recalls doesn’t have you on the edge of your seat, either in excitement or cringing in fear, then following FDA recalls via Twitter may be just the thing you are after. Â A quick browse of the recent updates shows that the FDA is announcing mostly [...]
March 17, 2009
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A Beef Cartoon-A Cut Above The Rest?
Yesterday’s flowchart about the hidden costs of industrial beef production focused on the creation the beef itself, not the consequences of actually eating the beef. Â This cartoon does a handy job of expressing some of those other concerns in a suscint and humorous manner.
What will you be having today?
February 27, 2009
Tags: agriculture, cows, Health, nutrition, obesity Posted in: Fun Food Facts, Health One Comment
The Bottomless Soup Bowl Experiment
Featured in the Annals of Improbable Research and winning an Ignoble Prize, Brian Wansink’s experiment “first makes people laugh, and then makes them think.” He wondered how we determine when we’ve eaten enough food.  Do we stop eating at the physical feeling of fullness or do we use external cues (that everyone else has already [...]
February 20, 2009
Tags: education, food, food safety, obesity, trvia Posted in: Fun Food Facts, Health 7 Comments
Eating Better: Politics and Strategy For The Dinner Table
Most parents are worried about getting their kids to eat healthier.  You could be wondering how to get yourself to eat more veggies, too. Brain Wansink, in Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think, describes how our environment often stimulates us to eat more of the “bad” stuff.  It’s not a diet [...]
February 16, 2009
Tags: change, food, food event, Health, moms, nutrition, obesity Posted in: Fun Food Facts, Health One Comment
