It’s not stretch of hot white sand. It’s also not where you can come upon an oasis, shimmering in the heat, and find platters laden with fresh fruit like in old-time movies. Here’s what it is: the CDC defines a food desert as an area “that lack(s) access to affordable fruits, vegetables, whole grains, low-fat [...]
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Are Your Groceries Baking In Your Car?
It’s hot outside. Open your car door and, whew, it feels like an oven. Pity those poor groceries sitting and baking in your trunk. Pity you and your family if you eat food that has spoiled because bacteria have multiplied like rabbits while heating up in your car. Perishable food can stay safely unrefrigerated only [...]
Don’t Let An “Organic” Label Pull The Wool Over Your Eyes
Even though “organic” refers to a method of production rather than nutritional content, an “organic” label can make you believe that food is healthier and tastier. A Cornell University study was designed to test what’s called the “halo effect,” or the theory that people are influenced by how something is described. The Study The [...]
Can You Train And Tame Your Hunger?
Physical – or real – hunger, the kind you feel when your stomach is growling, you’re irritable as all get-out, you’ve got zilch energy, and probably a throbbing headache, means you body needs food for fuel. Info You Can Use About Hunger Hunger is somewhat unpredictable. Your actual hunger levels are not the same every [...]
A Primer On Reduced, Low, Light, And Free!
Do you have a clue what the difference is between reduced fat, low fat, light, and fat free. You practically have to walk around with a cheat sheet — or an app — to figure out if something actually lives up to the promise on the product’s label. The same thing is true on menus, [...]
Too Few Veggies — You’re Not Alone!
Despite a couple of years of public health initiatives, an explosion in farmers markets, bagged salads, and a White House garden, Americans still don’t eat enough vegetables. Only 23% of meals include a vegetable (fries don’t count but lettuce on a burger does) and only 17% of dinners prepared at home include a salad (down [...]
Use By, Sell By, Expires By: What Do These Actually Mean?
You might be used to looking for expiration dates on dairy produces, eggs, and meat. But it seems like just about everything in the supermarket is now stamped with some kind of date. I tend not to like food that wiggles but others in my family get their own selection of Technicolor wiggle food, so [...]
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