An ingredient in green tea that helps reduce blood sugar spikes in mice may lead to new diet strategies for people, according to Penn State food scientists. Mice fed an antioxidant found in green tea -- epigallocatechin-3-gallate, or EGCG -- and corn starch had a significant reduction in...
Nisin, a common food preservative, may slow or stop squamous cell head and neck cancers, a University of Michigan study found. What makes this particularly good news is that the Food and Drug Administration and the World Health Organization approved nisin as safe for human consumption decades...
• Food safety during a power outage: What to keep, what to toss and when (HuffPost Healthy Living) • While you're at it ... why not give your fridge a good clean? It could save you time and energy (Organic Authority) • Should you sleep in a bra? Gravity works overnight too, says snarky...
stamps,housing,medical.section 8,cell phone,? cab fare,etc etc? I don't want to get off my butt and go to work, it is so much easier having other people give me money, I can even get cash advances from my welfare card at casinos and resorts.Do you know that many of my friends actually work, but...
Well, this is a huge bummer. The fast food industry is catching a lot of flak for their role in America's obesity epidemic--but it seems to be the employees who work the drive-thru that are internalizing the criticism. According to a survey by PayScale.com, nearly 40% of fast food employees...
Michael Pollan's new piece*in the New York Times magazine explains his position in favor of California's Proposition 37, which would require labeling on genetically modified foods (GMOs). *Pollan also participated in a IAmA session on Reddit, where he fielded a metric ton of user questions about...
Survey (its for school):
1. Are you male or female (you can skip this one if you don’t want to tell)
2. What do you usually eat for breakfast?
3. What do you usually drink with breakfast?
4. Do you ever skip breakfast?
5. Do you like to drink (plain) milk?
6. How many times a day do you drink...
Thanks to exposure to hand soaps that contain xenoestrogens and hormones in our food supplies, kids as young as six years old are starting to reach precocious puberty, especially girls. As a mom to an 8-year-old, the idea of her getting her period or breasts within the next year scares me to...
I write a lot about the problems with eating processed food, but the truth is, we all eat it. At least sometimes. (Unless you're one of those people who's incredibly good at sticking to a paleo diet, in which case: Teach me!) So if carrots (literal or figurative) don't do a good enough job of...
I feel a bit ridiculous even typing that question, but I really am interested. I'm 17 and I'm really in to working out. I have very high metabolism and I run track, so gaining weight is really difficult. I am really cut but I want to start putting on weight, not just becoming more defined. I eat...
I feel a bit ridiculous even typing that question, but I really am interested. I'm 17 and I'm really in to working out. I have very high metabolism and I run track, so gaining weight is really difficult. I am really cut but I want to start putting on weight, not just becoming more defined. I eat...
If you side with*"hungry" high schoolers*and uninformed lawmakers*who care about business more than the health of our kids,*you may think that new regulations on school lunches, which are designed to to cut down on junk food, are just too nanny state-ish. But it's not just Michelle Obama who's...
Prepare yourself, because this is pretty gross. For years, Dr. Erin Carr-Jordan has been fighting to clean up fast food restaurants. But her focus isn't the food they serve--it's the area that kids play in both before and after they eat, often without washing their hands. And, in an interview...
Move forward. High-five your neighbor. Turn around. Repeat. That's the winning formula of one of the world's smallest predators, the soil bacteria Myxococcus xanthus, and a new study by scientists at Rice University and the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) Medical...
Advertising of junk food continues to undermine children's health despite the food industry's promises that they would restrict their marketing activities, according to a new report A Junk-Free Childhood 2012: Marketing foods and beverages to children in Europe published by the International...