Eating Right: Sustainable Food Practices for Healthy Living

The Natural Egg-In the past 10 years, the egg has undergone a remarkable transformation, from a humble provider of protein, vitamins and minerals to an all-purpose edible conduit through which beneficial nutrients or potentially harmful chemicals can pass into the human body. As Americans become more critical of what they eat, small farmers and large-scale agribusiness have responded with a bewildering array of choices. And with the increasing variety of food products, even basics like eggs can confuse consumers.

Maybe it’s our growing appetite for spicy ethnic and foreign cuisines, or maybe it’s just that our palates thrill to the zip added by seasoning anything thrown on the grill. Whatever the reason, Americans are clearly running hot for spices. Last year, we consumed close to a billion pounds of the stuff, almost four pounds […]

Milk, cheese, butter, ice cream…all Bessie’s bounty, for sure. But if you want to go organic, it means a trip to the health food store, right? Wrong. If you’ve steered your shopping cart down a dairy aisle lately, you’ve noticed that certified-organic milk products are now as common as, well, cows. Despite the fact that […]

Avoiding "Addiction" with Dairy-Free Alternatives Recently, I lost 15 pounds by eliminating cheese, sweets and alcohol from my diet. Giving up cookies and soy ice cream wasn’t so hard, and switching to unsweetened soymilk was easy. Even eliminating alcohol wasn’t really as big of a challenge as I thought it might be, though I still […]

All-Natural Choices Avoid Synthetic Additives and Refined Sugar A dizzying array of ingredients and brands are available to consumers who are simply trying to find the healthiest juice. In your grocer’s cooler today are energy drinks, smoothies, blends, "old-fashioned" styles, herbals, all-natural juices and frozen juice from concentrate. What do you reach for, when all […]

Much of the American public consumes all forms of sweeteners without knowing that there are low-calorie ways to make your food more palatable without synthetic chemicals or cancer-causing ingredients.

Soymilk’s popularity has soared since the health benefits of soy have been widely publicized, and its taste was reformulated in recent years to appeal to Americans.

The Slow Food Movement Takes on the Fast Food Culture The sun was setting for the Delaware Bay oyster. Once a prominent cash crop for harvesters along New Jersey’s southern shores, mismanagement, parasites and pollution depleted the river’s raw bar and decimated a once-thriving trade. This seafood lover’s treat, with its "fine, mild flavor [and] […]