Weaving together new research and rich primary sources, the Plant Humanities Initiative recounts stories of global foods, such as peanuts, to illuminate their extraordinary significance to humans.
It’s not at all unusual to feed prisoners animal-grade food to save money. It happens all across the country every single day.
The jump in benefits, the biggest in the program’s history, comes after a revision of the initiative’s nutrition standards that supporters say will reduce hunger and better reflect how Americans eat.
Soon after calories were posted on fast-food menus, people cut back a little bit on what they ordered. But it didn’t last.
The FDA allows oat food labels to tout the nutritional value and health benefits of oats such as a reduced risk of coronary heart disease, weight and hunger control.
Administration proposals about changes to the SNAP food program received harsh criticism from a wide variety of experts. Michel Nischan, founder of Wholesome Wave, discusses problems with the new proposals.
Thanks to a decades-long effort by the chocolate industry, chocolate is now being convincingly sold as a health food. But the chocolate-industrial-research complex distracts us from issues like what in our food contributes to the obesity and diabetes epidemics; chocolate certainly isn’t the solution here.
Poor diet is not just about individual choice, but about the systems that make eating poorly the default for most Americans.
Boiled down, there are a few simple rules when it comes to the best way to eat your vegetables. Just as eating a variety of vegetables is a good idea, enjoying them in a variety of ways seems to maximize their health benefits.
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