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Despite years of efforts to reduce obesity, federal health officials reported Thursday that the share of Americans who were obese increased slightly. No comment yet.
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Despite the unquantified risk from microplastics in salt, salt is essential for life and sea salt tends to have trace minerals.
Cathryn Wellner's insight:
Plastic in salt? Sheesh!
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Often dubbed the false banana, the giant enset is a staple crop in certain parts of Ethiopia. As climate change brings increasingly frequent droughts, the plant's versatility and resilience could help fight hunger.
Cathryn Wellner's insight:
"Progress" is often blind to the gifts the natural world so generously bestows on us.
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Low doses of environmental chemicals can make animals gain weight. Whether they do the same to humans is a thorny issue.
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While Elon Musk tries to solve the world's transportation and energy problems, his brother Kimbal is working to transform what we eat.
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Coconut oil has been said to cause weight loss, protect against cancer and heart disease, and even slow down or prevent dementia. Here's what the studies actually say.
Cathryn Wellner's insight:
The wild claims are based on small studies. The jury is still out, but as long as you don't expect miracles, this delicious oil can play a small role in your diet. 
Dr. Bukar USMAN (D.V.M., M.V.S.c)'s curator insight,
March 5, 2016 6:38 AM
The wild claims are based on small studies. The jury is still out, but as long as you don't expect miracles, this delicious oil can play a small role in your diet.
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By Jonathan Latham, PhD Pregnant goats fed with genetically engineered (GE) soybeans have offspring who grow more slowly and are shorter, according to a new
Cathryn Wellner's insight:
This Italian study adds yet another piece to the GMO puzzle, and it is not a pretty one.
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Grass-fed beef tends to be higher in some nutrients, and studies suggest it may contain fewer bacteria that can cause food poisoning — which could be good for your health.
Cathryn Wellner's insight:
Timely in light of the latest research showing processed and red meats are linked to cancer.
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Pharmaceuticals in biosolid fertilizers could be harming your veggies.
Cathryn Wellner's insight:
I'm curious about this. Even without biosolids, pharmaceuticals are found in our waterways. Wouldn't they also get into our food?
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Monsanto pushes against California listing of herbicide as cancer cause | News | DW.COM | 21.10.2015
The agricultural giant Monsanto has urged California not to list herbicide glyphosate as carcinogenic. Glyphosate is the main ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup herbicides and many other products across the world.
Cathryn Wellner's insight:
That this is an understandable business decision on Monsanto's part says something about the separation of corporate ethics from consumer protection.
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Could the way people think about hunger be the greatest obstacle to ending it?
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Thousands of emails reveal how the biotech giant enlisted public university academics to prop up their massive PR machine.
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High levels of an illegal and toxic pesticide continue to be found in purchased samples of Mexican prickly pear cactus pads, despite fines, border advisories and health notices, according to a statewide inspection report released Wednesday. |
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Urbanites are not the only ones turning away from the products created by big food companies. Eating habits are changing across the country and food companies are struggling to keep up.
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Soda, candy, and fast food are often painted as the prime culprits in the national discussion of obesity in the United States. While a diet of chocolate bars and cheese burgers washed down with a Coke is inadvisable from a nutritional standpoint, these foods are not likely to be a leading cause of obesity in the United States according to a new study.
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A new study could shed light on whether an organic diet helps to decrease pesticide exposure among young children.
Cathryn Wellner's insight:
A good reminder that we live in complex ecosystems. Directly ingesting pesticides in the food we eat is only one way we absorb the thousands of chemicals in our environments.
Dr. Bukar USMAN (D.V.M., M.V.S.c)'s curator insight,
March 5, 2016 6:37 AM
A good reminder that we live in complex ecosystems. Directly ingesting pesticides in the food we eat is only one way we absorb the thousands of chemicals in our environments.
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The author and columnist traded his desk job to help launch Purple Carrot, a vegan meal-delivery business.
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Genetic engineering and horizontal gene transfer are phrases that have been used with delight by scare-mongers with limited appreciation of subtleties essential to their understanding.
Cathryn Wellner's insight:
An interesting essay on a scientific practice that makes promises and raises concerns.
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Obese children who cut back on their sugar intake see improvements in their blood pressure, cholesterol readings and other markers of health after just 10 days, a rigorous new study found.
Cathryn Wellner's insight:
Ten days is not long enough to form a new habit, but it is a start.
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U.S. meat industry objects controversial finding and prepares for battle.
Cathryn Wellner's insight:
This is not the first time processed meats have been fingered as health hazards so we already know what industry's response will be.
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Catherine Woteki, a top food scientist, highlighted the role that precision agriculture, genetic engineering and bugs could play in feeding the growing human population.
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Veterans of the food industry have taken the tricks and trades of Big Food to food start-ups looking to disrupt the market.
Cathryn Wellner's insight:
Not particularly surprising. These are smart marketers, and the companies know it.
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How Kevin Folta got entangled with Monsanto, created a shady podcast alter ego, and spurred a hot public debate over conflicts of interest in big ag.
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Have a Koch and diabetes. Big Soda responds to a cup-size limit by aligning with the NAACP, nasty PR and the Kochs
Cathryn Wellner's insight:
This is the kind of investigative journalism we need more of. If the Koch brothers supported this instead of anti-democratic shenanigans, we would have plenty of it.
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Meat producers showed dominance over nutrition experts this week.
Cathryn Wellner's insight:
A good piece on how industry dominates discussions on food guides, without regard to consumer or planet health. |
