McDonald’s seems willing to try anything to reverse its plummeting sales. Its latest reported effort: making its iconic Quarter Pounder a bit bigger than a quarter pound of meat.
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Gut bacteria, the microorganisms that live in your digestive tract, are all the rage these days. Connected to everything from mood to asthma to waistlines, yogurt makers are adding them to products as “probiotics,” and one company has even turned them into a $1.9 billion business by trying to develop them into medicine.
Rice’s arsenic problem just got worse.
After the US Supreme Court made gay marriage legal in all 50 states on June 26, the already planned Pride Parade in New York City is expected to be historic.
Summer is officially upon us and that means it’s time to start enjoying lots and lot of vegetables. Whether you’re an enthusiastic farmers market shopper, a backyard vegetable grower, or, in the US, a member of a community supported agriculture (“CSA”) program, sometimes you just end up with too many vegetables.
In September 2013, McDonald’s, joined by former US president Bill Clinton, announced a partnership with the Alliance for a Healthier Generation “to increase customers’ access to fruit and vegetables and help families and children to make informed choices in keeping with balanced lifestyles.” Thirty-eight million clementines, 161 million tubes of yogurt, and 21 additional million milk jugs and juice boxes later, the fast-food chain has met four of its five stated goals in the US.
As US egg production drops from avian flu, California is seeing an even bigger dip than the rest of the country.
Asthma continues to be a major problem throughout the world. Globally, it is the most common chronic disease in children, according to the World Health Organization. In the US, 8.3% of children had asthma in 2013. It is the third leading cause of hospitalizations for children under 15, and is a leading cause of school absenteeism.
General Mills announced today that it will be removing artificial flavors and colors from the 40% of its cereals that still have them by 2017 in the US and Canada, including the brightly-colored kids’ cereal, Trix.
It has probably happened in your kitchen, especially if you have a preference for brown eggs. You put your pan on the stove, add some oil, crack the egg, and drop it into the pan. And then you see it: a dash of red blood across the yolk.
A toxic algae bloom off the US West Coast that began earlier this year has grown into the biggest and most severe the region has seen in more than a decade.
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Bacon has come a long way in recent years, garnishing everything from burgers to desserts on restaurant menus. But the bacon obsession has opened the door to a new porcine fetish: pulled pork.
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In one way or another, nearly all the buzz on bees these days is about us humans being in deep trouble. Bee populations, both in managed honeybee colonies and in the wild, are dying in alarming numbers and the food system, which depends on those bees for pollination, is in big trouble.
This morning, the US Food and Drug Administration announced a new policy on trans fat, essentially banning it from processed foods.
The Mediterranean diet, rich in foods like fruits, vegetables, beans, fish, and olive oil, is often considered the gold standard in healthy and environmentally sustainable eating. But according to a new report from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, it is on the decline in the very region where it originated.
Late at night in the fall of 2009, Spencer Gaffney, a sophomore at Princeton University, was wandering the aisles of the university store searching for a late night snack when he noticed something interesting: At 210 calories, an unfrosted strawberry Pop-Tart had 10 more calories per serving than its frosted counterpart.
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The drought in California has been, to say the least, hard on the state’s agricultural industry.
Crystal Pepsi, the clear cola drink that was released with much fanfare and then flopped spectacularly in the nineties, is rumored to be making a comeback.
Last month, Pizza Hut announced it was taking artificial flavors and colors out of its nationally available pizzas. This week they announced they’re putting hot dogs in.
Aluminum has been identified as another possible human-driven culprit in the alarming bee deaths of recent years, which could impact the global food supply. (By some estimates, bee pollination is responsible for a third of the food produced in the world.)
