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] […]
The United States is the world’s largest producer of soybeans, although you wouldn’t know that from the American diet, which mostly takes in soy from soy sauce. But soy can serve as an alternative to meat or milk, create new organic inks and prevent certain kinds of cancer. Asians have known about these benefits for […]
Hot Beverages That Are Good for the Earth Shade-grown coffee. Fair-traded tea. Hot cocoa from all-natural ingredients, chai that’s certified organic. Bottoms up, thirsty environmentalist. It’s never been easier to find a hot drink that’s good both for the palate and the planet. And you don’t have to search the world over to find it. […]
While organic pasta represents only two percent of total yearly pasta sales, it is a growing niche.
Going With the Grain for Good Health When I was growing up in the 1960s, I thought the breads my grandparents served—dark, coarse pumpernickels and ryes "to sop up the sauces"—were peasant food, the last vestiges of their hard lives in Russia. Like most American children of my generation, I considered soft, white Wonder Bread […]
Delicious Organic Brews Offer a Healthier Alternative Eighty million Americans regularly drink beer, which breaks down to about 23 gallons of the beverage per person every year. One reason the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock was a declining stock of on-board "beere," and beer historian Will Anderson points out that America’s first "help wanted" ad, […]
