Health
Mythology and the Raw Milk Movement
What's behind recent claims about a milky unpasteurized panacea?
May 09, 2012 |
By Peter Smith
The Shangri-La of Health Food
The Hunza people supposedly lived to be 100 and had a practically illness-free existence. The American infatuation with their lifestyle ended in a particularly dramatic fashion
April 30, 2012 |
By Peter Smith
Jose Andres and Other Toques of the Town Honor Alice Waters
What do you cook for famed chef Alice Waters? Washington's culinary celebrities faced this challenge at the unveiling of her portrait at the Smithsonian
January 31, 2012 |
By Jeanne Maglaty
A Closer Look at What You Eat
A photographer uses a scanning electron microscope to zoom in on everyday foods—and makes art
January 13, 2012 |
By Megan Gambino
Music Playlists to Soothe Your Mind
Neuropsychiatrist Galina Mindlin suggests that listening to particular songs on your mp3 player can make you a more productive person
January 2012 |
By Erica R. Hendry
Can a Picky Eater Change Her Ways?
Most expand their culinary horizons as they get older, but a few people hold fast to limited diets of safe, familiar things like chicken nuggets and macaroni and cheese
December 16, 2011 |
By Lisa Bramen
The Gestational Diabetes Diet: Taking Carbs from a Pregnant Lady
The last thing a pasta-loving pregnant lady with a sweet tooth wants to hear is that she should cut out carbs
December 14, 2011 |
By Lisa Bramen
Is Licorice Dangerous?
Overindulgence in black licorice, according to the FDA, can cause potassium levels to fall, potentially leading to arrhythmia, a rise in blood pressure or other problems
November 01, 2011 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Is it Safe to Eat Roadkill?
Enough with the jokes already. Some people are serious about looking to the roadside for an alternative to mass-market meats
October 18, 2011 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Five Nobel Laureates Who Made Food History
These five Nobelists have made food safer or more available, or increased our knowledge of it
October 07, 2011 |
By Lisa Bramen
Is Home Economics Class Still Relevant?
"Too many Americans simply don't know how to cook," says a historian, and that has contributed to a health crisis
September 07, 2011 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Food For Emergency Situations
While it's hard to be the consummate kitchen maven in the face of disaster, it's still possible to manage food prep without a fully functional kitchen
August 25, 2011 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Sweet Garden Success
Meal planning has become like triage; we eat whatever is most urgently ripe
July 15, 2011 |
By Lisa Bramen
Insects as a Food Source
Entomophagy—the fancy Latin term for eating insects—is beginning to catch on in the Western Hemisphere
June 28, 2011 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Salisbury Steak: Civil War Health Food
After 30 years of research Dr. Salisbury finally published his ideas, setting off one of the earliest American fad diets
June 22, 2011 |
By Lisa Bramen
USDA Demolishing the Food Pyramid
The USDA began offering nutritional advice in 1894. We had 12 food groups in the 1930s, seven in the 1940s, four in the 1950s, then a pyramid and now a plate
June 01, 2011 |
By Jesse Rhodes
The National Museum of Health and Medicine
Once it re-opens in its new Silver Spring, Maryland location this fall, this site will scare and educate, with displays of prosthetic eyes, amputated limbs and incomplete skeletons
June 2011 |
By Tony Perrottet
The Wood in Your Food
Ardent label readers out there know to scan nutritional labels for ingredients that they don't want in their diet. But most people probably don't keep an eye out for "wood pulp"
May 17, 2011 |
By Jesse Rhodes
New Tool Maps Food Deserts in the U.S.
Approximately 23.5 million Americans are living in food deserts, most of whom live in urban areas
May 12, 2011 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Ban the Bag: Should Kids Be Forbidden From Bringing Lunch to School?
For students at Little Village Academy in Chicago, bringing lunch to school is verboten. Principals of Chicago's public schools are allowed to implement a "no bag lunch" policy if they say it serves the needs of their students. Principal Elsa Carmona began the ban at Little Village Academy six year...
April 14, 2011 |
By Jesse Rhodes
