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Photo by .j.e.n.n.y./Flickr CC Okra is so misunderstood. It truly is more versatile and delicious than its reputation allows. The growing season in Mississippi is long and hot, so many vegetables have a brief debut during the summer months. Okra, mustard greens, and collard greens seem to be around longer than most.
Learning to Appreciate Okra - Regina Charboneau
You do everything right. You eat your organic produce, free-range meat and eggs, and hormone-free milk. You studiously avoid plastic containers that could leach Bisphenol A (BPA), a possibly toxic estrogen-mimicking compound.
You're Eating Toxic Chemicals, Even If You Eat Organic And Avoid Plastic
Organic Milk Loophole: Closed - Marion Nestle
Photo by law_keven/FlickrCC USDA's 2002 organic rules said that dairy herds must have access to pasture. They did not say the animals had to actually be fed on pasture.
Organic Produce Update
Find out what fruits and veggies are most important to buy organic. Sure, we’d probably all love to buy every fruit and veggie organic, but it’s not always affordable to purchase everything from the often higher-priced organic section. Luckily, the Environmental Working Group (EWG) keeps a running list of the fruits and veggies that are most and least contaminated — here’s how they updated the list for 2011. Shopping Tips Organic produce is pesticide-free, but you don’t always have to buy organic. Some foods stay low in pesticides even when grown conventionally, while others are so wrought with pesticides that it’s worth the splurge to avoid chemicals.Is Sugar Toxic?
Kenji Aoki for The New York Times What the average American consumes in added sugars: Lustig is a specialist on pediatric hormone disorders and the leading expert in childhood obesity at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, which is one of the best medical schools in the country. He published his first paper on childhood obesity a dozen years ago, and he has been treating patients and doing research on the disorder ever since. The viral success of his lecture, though, has little to do with Lustig’s impressive credentials and far more with the persuasive case he makes that sugar is a “toxin” or a “poison,” terms he uses together 13 times through the course of the lecture, in addition to the five references to sugar as merely “evil.”
Francesco Tonelli for The New York Times FRESH AND FRESHER Clockwise, from top left: tuna, egg, green beans (No. 56); carrots, blueberries, sunflower seeds (7); croutons, tomatoes, mozzarella (42); walnuts, blue cheese, raspberries (49); couscous, oranges, honey (95); strawberries, tomatoes, Parmesan (13). That’s the idea behind the 101 ideas found in this section. In theory, each salad takes 20 minutes or less. Honestly, some may take you a little longer. But most minimize work at the stove and capitalize on the season, when , eggplant, herbs, fruit, greens and more are plentiful and excellent.
Recipes for 101 Simple Salads for the Season
The chef's knife is the indispensable multi-tool of the kitchen. It slices, it dices. It minces, juliennes and de-bones. But it also goes well beyond its intended uses. Need to open a bag of spinach?
Knife Fight: 8 Chef's Knives Tested and Rated
Breakfast Brain Foods - For Kids and Adults
Protein + carbs + fat = breakfast. Who says your morning meal has to consist of traditional breakfast foods? The media blasts us with “brain food” articles and TV segments every back-to-school season.
Leo Galland, M.D.: Ginger's Health Benefits: Fighting Pain, Inflammation, Arthritis
Fragrant herbs and spices such as ginger are some of the most powerful weapons we have to help combat inflammation from a nutritional perspective. Inflammation causes or contributes to obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, Alzheimer's disease and many types of cancer, as I wrote in a recent review that appeared in Nutrition in Clinical Practice . Aromatic ginger is a superstar of traditional medicine in Asia, where it has been treasured for thousands of years for its amazing flavors and impressive health benefits. Ginger Used as Painkiller for ArthritisThe Inconvenient Truth About Cheap Food and Obesity: It's Not Farm Subsidies - Food
Pop quiz: What mistaken belief about food is endorsed by both the libertarian right and the foodie left? Answer: That farm subsidies make unhealthy foods artificially cheap. This myth gained currency thanks to Michael Pollan’s runaway 2006 bestseller, The Omnivore’s Dilemma , which blamed America’s bad eating habits on corn and soy, made cheap and ubiquitous by farm subsidies. More recently, the Cato Institute, and even George Will, have made the same claim.