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, Ali Vincent (winner [...]

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 [...]

On July 1, Starbucks announced it was closing 600 stores in the U.S and expects to open fewer than 200 new company-operated stores in the U.S. in fiscal 2009.
Click here for the list of stores that will close by the end of July. Closures will continue into FY09, and the determination of each store’s closure date will be dependent [...]

Thanks to All Recipes, here’s a roundup of 4th of July recipes for every state of the union. So whether you’re in California whipping up a smoothie, South Carolina sipping sweet tea, or Montana kicking back with a tonic, be sure to raise your glass to Independence Day!
Wyoming Stew
Wisconsin Native’s Beer Cheese Soup
West Virginia Recipes
Washington [...]

Urban growth, overcrowding and population explosions, oh my!
According to experts, by the year 2050, nearly 80% of the earth’s population will reside in urban centers, and conservative estimates are that the human population will increase by about 3 billion people during the interim.
More people and larger urban areas (the dreade sprawl) mean less farm land.
Enter [...]

Whether you’re a vegetarian, or you just want to get your daily dose of the good stuff, there’s no reason you have to relegate yourself to eating meat on the road.
Websites
There are several good websites that will help you plan where to eat when you’re on the road, whether you’re sticking close to home or [...]

If you’re a honey fanatic like I am, maybe you already know that there’s been a decline in the U.S. honeybee population as of late, and that decline is wrecking havoc.
Known as Colony Collapse Disorder, the decline is a major concern because bees do a lot for our ecosystem, including produce food (about a third [...]

While there are several sources of folic acid, such as spinach, avocados, beans and peanuts), now it’s going to be easier for expecting moms to get their daily intake, thanks to the March of Dimes, who recently created the Folic Acid for a Healthy Pregnancy seal.
Folic acid, which helps prevent heart disease, stroke, some cancers [...]

That’s right…there’s a genius in Northern California who decided to take up vegan baking–and the result is People’s Donuts,
They work out of a wholesale facility in West Oakland, Calif., and have plans in the works to open a “donut shop” somewhere nearby soon.
The company started selling Vegan Donuts in late March/early April 2007 out of their [...]

Silk Soymilk, my non-dairy breakfast staple, has brought back the Green Caps for Green Energy (TM) campaign, which offsets the electricity they use to make Silk with clean wind energy.
Simply purchase Silk Soymilk with green caps, and go to the website to enter the UPC number from your carton. Silk will sponsor 30 extra kilowatt [...]