From Scratch

Newsweek has a short, interesting article on the four worst kinds of soups, from the standpoint of health and nutrition. Dr. Robert Vogel of the Pritikin Longevity Center points to high fat and calorie counts and sodium levels per serving that can exceed an entire day’s recommended amount as reasons for making soup from scratch […]

Time magazine has noticed those ads for high-fructose corn syrup I wrote about earlier and wondered if the ads, touting it as perfectly natural, are right or whether widespread public perception and arguments against it are correct. It concludes the answer is somewhere in between.
HFCS does not exist in nature. Time quotes Michael Jacobson, head […]

I was watching one of the news channels Friday night when I saw this startling commercial:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=EEbRxTOyGf0
What it doesn’t tell us — although it’s not hard to guess — is that the Corn Refiners’ Association is behind the SweetSurprise website. It’s fairly even-handed, if selective. For instance, the FAQ entry about how sweeteners are metabolized says […]

The mere thought of “practicing” for a diet sounds crazy, but when I decided to try this diet I knew I’d need a practice day or two to try to sort it out. All we have to go by, until someone writes the inevitable book and gets rich, is the study methodology - 1,240 calories per […]

Whole Foods Market has halted sales of Roma and large, round field-grown tomatoes without attached vines or stems at all of its more than 270 stores after an outbreak of salmonella linked to raw tomatoes. In addition, stores are no longer using tomatoes in sandwiches and salads.
The voluntary recall follows a warning from the Texas Health Department […]