healthy eating

Can great design encourage healthy eating?

Try smoking a carrot stick
Jun 1, 2012 3:31 pm

Artist Daizi Zheng is trying encouraging people to eat healthy by packaging healthy snacks into stereotypically unhealthy packages. 

The Sweet Appeal of Anti-Sugar Legislation

Two rulings on sugar have far-reaching effects
Jun 1, 2012 10:01 am

Say goodbye to enormous sodas and "corn sugar." New rules in NYC and rulings in DC rain on sugar's sweet, sweet parade.

Ric Bucher On Why NBA Ballers Like The Cheesecake Factory

Television analyst likes dining with Tim Duncan
May 30, 2012 10:01 am
Ric Bucher

ESPN reporter, Ric Bucher, on the eating habits of NBA players and the league's obsession with the Cheesecake Factory.

What Earthquakes And The FTC Have in Common

Parmesan cheese and POM juice take a hit
May 25, 2012 10:01 am
POM

Rarely do Italian earthquakes and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) play similar roles in the news, but this week they coincidentally led to disaster for two food products.

Peter Kaminsky: Get Smart, Lose Weight

The man who wrote the book on Culinary Intelligence
May 1, 2012 1:01 pm

Today, Peter Kaminsky's latest book, Culinary Intelligence, hits bookshelves, and in it, he describes how his job as a professional eater led to a battle of the bulge and a stern warning from doctors about the threat of diabetes and even death. Full interview after the jump.

Meatless Monday: Veggie Porn

Convert to vegetarianism for today. Here's why.
Apr 9, 2012 11:31 am

Enter my favorite task: finding tantalizing food porn on Flickr. It turns out, vegetarians are pretty solid photographers and veggies make really beautiful subjects. Scroll through the photos below, and let me know what you'll be harvesting for lunch. 

Is Eating Fat Chickens Making Us Fat?

A new study targets nutritional value of chickens
Mar 29, 2012 3:01 pm
Barred Rock Chickens

Can eating today’s overweight and often deformed industrial chickens be contributing to our obesity epidemic? Is it possible that the white lean meat we’ve been told is better for us than heart attack-inducing red meat is actually full of fat? According to a 2009 British study — yes.

6 Scary Things Hiding In Your Food

Foodiness: Ingredients aren't always what they seem
Mar 14, 2012 9:01 am

Garden burgers. Power bars. Protein brownies. Bottled water that makes you thin, young and smart. And we used to wonder what they put in Pop Rocks...

These days it’s hard for even die-hard foodies to know what they’re eating or drinking. That’s because food has changed from something that didn’t need a modifier – if it walked, swam, flew...

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