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Posted in Disease Fighting Foods on Oct 15th, 2009
If you’re looking to boost immunity and fight off the flu this winter, don’t miss out on miso. Never has something so rotten been so rife with nutrients – traditional Japanese miso is a fermented soy bean paste that’s made by inoculating trays of white rice with mold – it’s packed with a veritable Mount [...]
Posted in Nutritious & Delicious on Oct 14th, 2009
Miso is packed full of vitamins and minerals (be sure to read the previous post for the complete low-down), but you don’t have to eat miso soup at every meal in order to reap its nutritional benefits. There are masses of delicious and nutritious ways to incorporate miso into your mealtime mantra. This salad, coupled [...]
Posted in Disease Fighting Foods, Nutritious & Delicious on Oct 13th, 2009
The Green Nut – a site dedicated to the nutritional benefits of pistachios – is encouraging people to go green with their nut consumption (Ps. it’s our only Kermit-colored nut). Not only do they provide the premise for my favorite ice-cream flavor, pistachios also pack a pretty decent nutritional punch.
Posted in Nutrition News on Oct 12th, 2009
The current Nutella ad really gets my nutritional knickers in a knot! I’m totally perplexed as to why anyone would think it’s a good idea to give kids (or adults) chocolate for breakfast – it’s seriously nutty advice. I realize that hazelnuts on their own are nutritious, but in a milk chocolate spread, that’s a seriously [...]
Posted in Eco-friendly Eating on Oct 9th, 2009
If you’re jetting about on commercial airlines these days, it’s likely you’re flying the “un-environmentally friendly skies.” Even the infrequent flier might have spotted the lack of sorting or separation when it comes to discarding various in-flight detritus – everything from bread crusts to candy wrappers and aluminum cans get thrown into the same trash [...]
Posted in Ask the Experts on Oct 8th, 2009
Michael Pollan is undoubtedly one of my favorite food activists and writers. His site features a wonderful list of Web resources for sustainable eating – including a directory of sustainably-raised meat, a guide on how to eat locally, how to buy seafood from sustainable sources, how to promote organic farming, and a list of farmers [...]
Posted in Nutrition Calculator on Oct 6th, 2009
Fiber is nature’s nutritional ninja – fighting fat by slowing sugar absorption, and nunchucking disease by encouraging heart and digestive health. But which foods pack the best fiber-boosting punch? While most packaged products contain a complex nutritional break-down of what’s inside on the outside, “whole foods” don’t come with the same labeling lexicon. However, Web [...]
Posted in Healthy Monday Tip on Oct 5th, 2009
Dance off those chili cheese doritos, starting this Monday! Although I vowed to hang up my heels after a series of back-cracking dips and drops on the dance floor at my friend’s wedding, I think a couple of dance lessons – less the libation of sugary liquor and Dirty Dancing “lifts” – sounds like more [...]
Posted in Nutrition News, Weight Loss Tips on Oct 1st, 2009
The belt-busting American waistline is becoming as much a political as a public health problem. However, the politics of fat are not easily digestible. It’s no secret that we’re eating money – literally – the CDC estimates that obesity now accounts for 9.1% of all medical spending, that’s $147 billion in 2008.
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