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A Morning at the Galeria de la Alameda in Cali, Colombia

Twenty years ago there were very few supermarkets in Cali, Colombia. Families would instead head to the galerias on Sundays before church. At this covered outdoor market families would do their weekly shopping. Gladly the Galeria is still intact and we visited recently. It’s located in the Alameda neighborhood in Cali and is easily accessible [...]

Chinese Farmer Creates Cute Fruit to look like Kids

Rules formerly in place in Europe, which prevented stores from selling odd-shaped or sized fruits and vegetables to consumers, were officially lifted in July.  This means that curvy cucumbers, knobby carrots and two dozen other types of produce may now be sold in groceries and supermarkets, even if they are not picture perfect.   The rule, [...]

White House Furious Over Nutrition Ad

A storm of controversy is brewing over the advertisement on the importance of healthy school lunches that mentions President Obama’s daughters.
Shari Roan with The Los Angeles Times says the ad, distributed by the pro-vegetarian-diet group Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, has a photo of a young girl and states “President Obama’s daughters get healthy school [...]

Foodies in the Raw – 10 Reasons to Try a Raw Food Diet

While the majority of us spend many happy hours in the kitchen, employing a variety of cooking techniques to give our food taste and texture, there is another group of dedicated foodies that could survive very well without a stove, or even a microwave oven.  They consider themselves purists and subscribe to a diet of [...]

How To Super Boost Nutrients in Veggies

Chop them up and eat them with a little fat.
A study conducted at Iowa State University determined that fat-free or low-fat dressings block the absorption of critical nutrients from vegetables, according to NPR’s Allison Aubrey.
Beta-carotene researchers confirmed the findings. “We already knew that carotenoids were fat soluble,” explains Wendy White, a professor of Human [...]

Eat Healthy On Less Money

Sometimes the obvious becomes clouded from our view — our thoughts are abducted by endless advertising and marketing campaigns for fast-food, or pre-packaged easy-to-fix frozen food. But preventative health is vital now more than ever in a protracted recession, and health prevention is best served by a healthy diet. “You can eat healthy and still [...]

Preserve those Veggies for Another Day

Higher grocery and fuel costs, the seemingly never-ending recall of contaminated or tainted food products, and the ongoing interest in sustainability, have led to an increase in the number of home vegetable gardens this year.   Those who don’t have the space, time or green thumbs to maintain a garden, can be found patronizing neighborhood farmers [...]

‘Let food be thy medicine & thy medicine be food’

Alice Park with Time refers us to the Greek healer Hippocrates, the medical practitioner who is regarded as the father of medicine, and author of the Hippocratic oath. It was Hippocrates who said, “Let food be thy medicine and let thy medicine be food.”
Park says doctors now believe he may have been right — doctors [...]

Alyssa Milano and John Salley Lend their Voices to Promote Food, Inc.

You’ll never look at dinner the same way again.  That’s what the producers of the film, Food, Inc. promise, when it makes its theatrical debut on June 12 in both New York and San Francisco.  In this landmark cinematic documentary, filmmaker Robert Kenner investigates and chronicles our nation’s food supply and how it gets from the farm to [...]

How To I.D. Genetically Modified Food at the Supermarket

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Not many consumers realize that the FDA does not require genetically modified food to be labeled. That’s because the FDA has decided that you, dear consumer, don’t care if the tomato you’re eating has been cross bred with frog genes to render the tomato more resistant to cold weather. Some consumers may not [...]

Savvy Consumers Cause Organic Food Sales to Soar

Although the sale of truly healthy food only accounted for less than 4 percent of the total food sales in 2008, organic food sales increased by 15.8%, according to an Organic Industry Survey, conducted by Lieberman Research Group on behalf of the Organic Trade Association.
Breads and grains as well as organic fruits and vegetables accounted [...]

New Report – An Indictment of the F.D.A.

According to C.D.C. estimates, around 76 million people in the U.S. suffer foodborne illnesses each year, 300,000 are hospitalized, and 5,000 die. The FDA’s negligence and incompetence in its role of supervising America’s food supply has been in question for years. Criticism of the agency comes not only from tax paying citizens, and organized advocacy [...]