PREPARE IN ADVANCE
If you think you’re going to be able to wing it and prepare quality foods quickly at home, you’re mistaken. Planning meals and shopping in advance ensure that you don’t wind up walking into your kitchen, opening the fridge, closing it in frustration and gathering the kids to go to McDonald’s.
More than just fancy #lettuce, these #greens are refreshing, filling, extraordinarily low in calories, and provide much-needed nutrients. Here are a few “green” #health and purchasing tips from some top…
#Sleep Series – Foods, Herbs and Supplements Here are the answers to several questions about #tryptophan and sleep. What is tryptophan? Tryptophan is one of 20 essential, naturally occurring amino acids, which…
1. Join Something: How about joining an organic buying club or a Community- Sponsored Agriculture (CSA) program to support a local farm and get a share of the produce? Along…
T. Colin Campbell is a retired professor of nutritional biochemistry at Cornell University who started his career doing research on how to make animals grow faster. His goal was to promote better health by advocating the consumption of more meat, milk and eggs. Then, more than 40 years ago, while he was a young researcher working on a project to help stamp out malnutrition in the Philippines, he came to a turning point that shifted the direction of his life’s work. Now he’s on a mission to share his compelling research on nutrition and diet with the world. He wrote a book called The China Study, (BenBella Books, 2005), based on his years of research showing the connection between nutrition and heart disease, diabetes and cancer.
There are many organizations working to help make a better, more interesting food system. The following are committed to helping change our food system for the better. Center for Food…
Well, Mom was right, and she didn’t even know all the yet-to-be-discovered research that supports eating plenty of vegetables. Veggies help you lose weight because they’re high in both fiber and water, which means you get a lot of food for very few calories. In addition to that, they fight disease.
So, while experts recommend eating a variety of vegetables, here are the best of the best, based on the following criteria: taste, nutrients (biggest bang per gram), fewest calories (compared with other vegetables), antioxidant (disease fighting) value, portability, ease of use and storage, mouth feel and cooking and eating flexibility.
Find a Farmers Market: Are you looking for a farmers market? The USDA has a fantastic search engine with more than 4,000 farmers markets. The site allows you to search anywhere in the country to find the farmers markets in your area. It also lets you search by specifics, such as products (e.g., baked goods, cheese and/or dairy products, fish and/or seafood, fresh fruit, nuts, plants, honeys, jams and preserves, soaps, etc.), and even by payment methods accepted. You can also check out LocalHarvest.org for a national directory of farmers who market their goods directly to the public.
You wake up one morning and see that you have an unidentified rash on your hand. What’s one of the first things you do? Probably, if you’re like most Americans,…
In 2013, Danielle Nierenberg co-founded Food Tank, a nonprofit organization focused on building a global community for safe, healthy, nourished eaters. Food Tank is an international convener that aims to…
