For those who eat seafood, it’s time to take a look at how that smoked salmon, lobster tail, crab legs or shrimp scampy got from the ocean to your plate. Not only should you be aware of the mercury levels in the seafood you dine on, but also how the seafood is caught, and how that impacts [...]

It seems beef issues are on the rise these days. Maple Leaf Foods Inc., Canada’s biggest food processor, is recalling meat products after health officials identified a Toronto plant as the source of food poisoning that led to four deaths. Laboratory results linked meat products from the plant with an outbreak of listeriosis in four provinces, [...]

In my ongoing obsession with trying to get gluten-free, I recently came across alternative flour sources via Natural Health Magazine, and I thought I would pass along some alternatives the magazine suggested. Almond Flour: high in vitamin E and magnesium Coconut Flour: high in protein and fiber Chickpea Flour: rich in protein and iron Hazelnut [...]

Eggs have been known to get a bad rap, as the cholesterol found in the yolks has been blamed for raising cholesterol levels in the body. Not so, says the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, which recently found no link in healthy people between eggs and either heart disease or stroke. In fact, eggs may [...]

It’s that time of year again where I live. Time for the California State Fair. And as if the heat and the crowds aren’t enough to turn a stomach, there’s also the ability to get pretty much anything deep fried. Including frog legs. At Chicken Charlie’s food stands, fair-goers have their choice of deep-fried items [...]

On August 8, Nebraska Beef issued a USDA Class 1 recall of 1.2 million pounds of beef because of possible E. coli 0157:H7 contamination, of which about 4 percent was destined for select Whole Foods Market stores in 23 states and D.C. As a precautionary measure, Whole Foods had already voluntarily recalled fresh ground beef [...]

When you consider the fact that half an avocado contains 4.9G fiber, 354MG potassium, 15.3MCG vitamin K, 59MCG folate, 1.5G protein and 10.7G (good) fat, what’s not to like? Creamy, buttery avocados get their taste and texture from good fats, those monounsaturated fats that help lower cholesterol. Whether it’s the base for guacamole, or diced [...]

A new Federal Trade Commission (FTC) report sheds new light on food marketing to children and adolescents. The report, “Marketing Food to Children and Adolescents: A Review of Industry Expenditures, Activities, and Self-Regulation”, finds that 44 major food and beverage marketers spent $1.6 billion to promote their products to children under 12 and adolescents ages [...]

Beginning in early 2010, California will be the first state to ban restaurants from using trans fats, which have been linked to coronary heart disease, strokes, diabetes and obesity. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a new law, Assembly Bill 97, recently that directs restaurants to stop using trans fats by January 2010, and for bakeries to follow suit one year [...]

There’s been a lot of talk about gluten lately, and I know that reducing gluten intake is one of the goals in this book, but with all the talk, I still don’t understand what the big gluten deal is. I know that those afflicted with celiac disease have gluten intolerance, but what does that mean exactly? [...]