You know how people always say that when things taste good, they’re bad for you? And when things taste bad, they’re good for you? Well, in the case of Kardea Nutrition, food not only tastes good, but it’s also very good for you. Kardea’s snack bars deliver 50% more heart healthy soluble fiber than found in [...]

Call me crazy, but when I hear about a gadget that is not only eco-friendly but also helps fight teeth stains, well, I’m all for it. Enter Wisdom Wands. The Java Wand and Health Tea Wand are both made form hand-blown glass. The Java Wand’s filtered straw saves on electricity (up to three times less energy [...]

Believe me when I tell you I so wish I was headed to the 24th Annual Vegetarian Food Fair in Toronto. The Fair runs September 5 (4 to 9 p.m.), 6 (11 a.m. to8 p.m.) & 7 (11 a.m. to 6 p.m.) at the Harbourfront Centre (235 Queens Quay West, Toronto, Canada, for those of you [...]

It’s Friday, and it’s happy hour somewhere, so why not enjoy a glass of “green” wine? According to a recent study presented at a meeting of the American Association of Wine Economists, bag-in-box (BIB) wine is better for the environment than bottled wine. It also keeps better, as the BIB packaging locks oxygen out, making the [...]

What better way to combine two passions (environmentalism and chocolate) than through companies that make delicious chocolate treats that don’t impact the environment? First up, Endangered Species, which donates 10 percent of net profits to wildlife habitat conservation projects. Their Supreme Dark Chocolate bar has 72 percent cocoa content in 3 oz., and is gluten free [...]

  Trish?a Yearwood is the latest in along line of celebrities to lend her mug to the Got Milk? campaign. Her ad touts the nutrients in milk, which help maintain weight, as well as the protein, which helps build strong bones and muscles. Yearwood joins many other famous Milk Mustache women, including Martha Stewart, Marg Helgenberger, [...]

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 [...]

Whenever my husband and I go on vacation (or really, any time we know we’ll be away from home for a few hours), we pack some Odwalla bars just in case we get hungry. Odwalla (pronounced Oh-dwa-la) is a juice company founded in Santa Cruz, Calif., in 1980 and is now headquartered in Half Moon Bay, Calif. [...]

Speaking of sugar, there’s one item (besides baked goods) in which Stevia will not do, and that is the highly addictive phenomenon known as Kettle Corn. If you’ve never before tried this sweet-and-salty popcorn made with granulated sugar, salt, and oil, walk–no, run!–to your nearest fair, amusement park or open air market, where you will [...]

If, when you think of sweeteners, immediately you start humming “Pour Some Sugar On Me”, you’re not alone. Generally speaking, there are two types of sweeteners, nutritive and non-nutritive. Among the nutritive are sugar alcohols, honey, fruits, and syrups (including maple, sugar beet, corn, cane, golden, barley malt, Molasses, brown rice, and agave). Non-nutritive sweeteners [...]